Welcome!

The Internet has always been a fascinating place, with new things to be discovered every day. It is full of amazing information, drama, humor ... and not so good things. Things we sometimes wish we could unsee. Whether it's a trashy ad, fake news clickbait that's suggestive or otherwise NSFW, or an accidental visit to a porn site - it's not something that's bringing life to people.

A few years ago, a confluence of technology developments made it possible to much more easily deploy basic artificial intelligence to web technologies. Additionally, research in image recognition by computers has seen dramatic improvements since 2012. Highly increased accuracy and speed have now moved this technology from research into practical solutions for some problems. Combined, these factors now make it possible to start approaching filtering in the browser directly rather than relying on external services - which also helps protect your privacy.

The first natural step towards this is scanning images. I've been working on a detection model and a plugin to do this since 2018, gradually iterating through better models and improved performance. The result is the Wingman Jr. Firefox plugin - I hope you find it useful!

https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_jr