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So, I got this new coworker of mine, he's 5 years older than me and says he's got a loooot of experience with html, css und javascript. Nice. Boss wants us to blur some text on a website, I show him how to do it with css "filter: blur(4px)".

5 minutes later he's all proud and says "done". I think nice, check the code - and see this moron having put an <img> png in there, having blurred the text with photoshop. Short memory, anyone?

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  • 2
    If your text is supposed to be unreadable, I'd just add a blurred lorem ipsum. Otherwise, anyone who knows a thing or two about css can open the dev tools and unblur it. Similar to how any page that restricts you from scrolling down can be bypassed by re-adding the overflow-y behavior.
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    It depends on why it's been blurred.
    Obfuscation won't prevent someone from seeing the text, but if it's like a hover event or something then css blur is more then enough.

    Use case and reasoning are important here.
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