Sometimes you're on a support website, like the phone company's or Microsoft's or whatever, after hours of frustration trying to solve a problem. On the page with the info is some dumb ad for that very service, showing an oversmiley, overcheerful, aren't-everyday-people-wonderful, I-love-my-life, busy happy person (or family).

Grrr. I am not in the mood to see them right now.

It would be nice if my web browser toolbar had a "HIDE PEOPLE" button that uses developing face-recognition technology to blur out the smiling faces on any page. So I can concentrate on my problem in peace.

Sorry to be a curmudgeon.
-- phundug, May 05 2008

Firefx add-on - Image Show/Hide https://addons.mozi...S/firefox/addon/232
Toolbar button to do that very thing. (Not specific to smiley faces, of course.) It'll make your pages load faster, too, I'm sure. [DrCurry, May 05 2008]

Easy enough to zap all images, I'd've thought.
-- DrCurry, May 05 2008


Yeah but what if the "solution" is presented in the form of images?
-- phundug, May 05 2008


You're screwed. Especially if the "solution" is smiling.
-- DrCurry, May 05 2008


can I have this in real-life ?... I don't do mornings and meeting smiley people means I either have to get up the energy to match their smug smileyness or the energy to growl convincingly.
-- FlyingToaster, May 05 2008


Rather than blur the faces, it should be able to replace the smiles with scowls and make the eyes a bit narrow and hung-over looking.
-- hippo, May 06 2008


Yet another argument for Lynx (he says, using K-Meleon).

With Opera, you can just turn images off and on with a single click.
-- nineteenthly, May 06 2008



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