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Only reason I can think of: Pixelation has a more elegant touch than covering everything with a box (be it black, or some better suited color). Took a while to

by riidom 6y ago

Only reason I can think of: Pixelation has a more elegant touch than covering everything with a box (be it black, or some better suited color). Took a while to convince people to not use a bit of gaussian blur, because it's insecure. Well, ready for round 2...

seltzered_ 6y ago
What stops one from making a more secure pixelation algorithm? One that will shuffle around or maybe just randomly derive the pixelated blocks if they're within a certain color threshold of similarity? I still generally like pixelation over drawing a box for aesthetic purposes.
- jamiek88 6y ago
  Why bother? Just have the tool put random text to fit then pixelize that.
- riidom 6y ago
  Well you can increase the size of the blocks, maybe to full font-height. But at some point in future, some ML-guy will even decipher that probably.
lopmotr 6y ago
For elegance, it's a bit artificial, being tied to the technology of things that use pixels and popular software that zooms in on pixelated images as a grid of single-color squares. Maybe some unintelligible character-like symbols would look more elegant?