GOOGLE will soon be introducing a feature to prevent people from seeing explicit images.
The new feature was announced yesterday as part of Safer Internet Day.
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The company is still perfecting the feature, which will arrive to billions of Google users in the coming months.
The SafeSearch feature will blur explicit images in search results for all users by default.
This is even the case when users don’t have SafeSearch switched on.
The filter is already the default for signed-in users under the age of 18.
Google users will be able to adjust their settings if they don’t have a supervised account.
“Unless your account is supervised by a parent, school, or administrator, you will be able to change your SafeSearch setting at any time,” Google spokesperson Charity Mhende told The Verge.
The blur will cover up explicit images, such as nudity or violence, but not text or links.
However, users can weak their settings to limit an account’s exposure to all three.
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It mirrors a feature already employed by social media apps such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as it seeks to limit people’s exposure to some of the horrors of the internet.
Google is also introducing new privacy protections for its iOS app, meaning Apple iPhone users will be able to access the new safety features from their smartphone.
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