Editorial policy

How a guide is written

Each guide owns one job. A page about iPhone Markup does not also try to be the Windows Snipping Tool page. When two URLs were answering the same search, we keep one and permanently redirect the other.

Steps that use BlurThis are checked against the editor in the browser: blur, pixelate, and black bar on images, Find faces and Find text as suggestions, a PNG download, and timed boxes on short video with the limits stated on the video guides. If the product cannot do something, the guide says so. Examples that stay true: no automatic face tracking in video, and no opaque black bar on video.

Steps that use a phone or computer (Photos Markup, Gallery, Preview, Snipping Tool, ChromeOS) are checked against the vendor help page linked in that guide. We do not run a device lab, and we do not claim that every figure is a live capture of that operating system. Many figures are BlurThis illustrations. The alt text says what the figure is showing.

AI tools may help draft a page. Shaibaz checks the draft against the editor and the vendor docs before it is published. That is the same fact stated on the About page.

What the guides do not claim

• A blur is not always irreversible. A light blur or a fine mosaic on short text can sometimes be recovered. A solid cover that replaces the pixels is a different object.
• Processing a file in the browser means it is not uploaded to BlurThis. It is not anonymity, not a forensic wipe of device memory or disk, and not HIPAA or GDPR compliance by itself.
• A fresh PNG from the editor is a new raster. Do not read a guide as a promise that every possible metadata field on every camera file has been stripped by a dedicated metadata tool.
• Guides are practical how-tos. They are not legal, medical, or security audits. Pages that touch those topics say so.

Dates and corrections

The published date stays put. The updated date changes only when the body of that guide changes. We do not restamp every page because a different page was edited.

If a step is wrong, out of date, or unclear, email helloblurthis@gmail.com with the page URL and what to fix. Corrections land on the same URL. We do not publish a second page for the same task in order to look new. Contact is the same inbox.

Advertising on guides

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