Soft Blackout
Mask text on any page, or turn articles into blackout poetry
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Soft Blackout masks text on any web page three ways, right from Chrome's toolbar. Manual masks any text you select in one click. Poetry turns an article into a blackout poem: you pick the words to keep and it hides the rest. Pattern Mask finds emails, URLs and phone numbers and masks them only when you choose Apply. Choose Solid or Marker style in five colours, with Undo and Redo across every mode. Masks are only visual and disappear on reload.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Writing
- Privacy
- GitHub
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Yes A Chrome extension that masks selected text, applies regex-based detection for emails and phone numbers, and generates blackout poetry from article text. All of this uses standard content scripts and DOM manipulation.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #14 of 106 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 211 days after the earliest competitor.
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