ungaze – hide faces on the web Chrome extension security report

A calmer web. ungaze automatically hides faces in images on web pages – as the page loads, on every site, including lazy-loaded images and images inside embedded frames. No clicking, no list to maintain. Not everywhere? One click switches ungaze off for the site you are on. It stays off there — across tabs and restarts — until you switch it back on, and that covers frames embedded in the site as well. What people use it for • Focus. Faces in thumbnails and previews stop competing for your attention. • Less overload. If faces and gazes overstimulate or distract you, your feed gets quieter. • Less pull. Outrage and celebrity thumbnails lose their pull once the face is gone. • Screen sharing and presentations. Strangers' faces are hidden while you share your screen. What is in the package One model: the detector. It finds where a face is, never who it is. There is no recogniser, there are no reference images and no profiles — not switched off, absent. The download is 3.5 MB; you can unzip it and count. Everything stays on your device Processing runs entirely in the browser (ONNX Runtime, WebAssembly). No image data leaves your device. No account, no login, no tracking. This build makes no server requests at all. Being honest about it No face detector finds every face. Very small, heavily occluded, sharply angled or blurry faces can slip through; conversely, something that is not a face is occasionally hidden. ungaze is deliberately tuned to err on the generous side. If you depend on complete anonymisation, do not rely on a browser extension alone. Free and ungaze Free gives you the eye bar: a black bar across the eyes, on every face, on every site. It works, but it is crude – it covers the eyes, the rest of the face stays visible. ungaze unlocks the soft effects: blur, pixel and hexel, each with a feathered edge and aligned to head tilt, plus the settings to fine-tune them. Unlocked via ungaze.eu. What comes next Hiding specific people instead of all faces – that is what we are working on. Because it would have to compare faces with each other, it is legally demanding; we will only release it once it is fully in line with the EU AI Act and GDPR.