GambleBlur

Blurs gambling content on any page using on-device AI. Ads, videos, articles - if it's gambling, it's blurred. Click to reveal.

GambleBlur blurs gambling content before you see it — on every website. Gambling ads, casino videos, sports betting promos, and slot machine thumbnails are everywhere: news sites, video platforms, social feeds. If you're avoiding gambling — for recovery, for focus, or just because you're sick of seeing it — blocking pages isn't the answer. GambleBlur takes a gentler approach: the page stays usable, but anything gambling-related is blurred out. If you ever need to see something, one click reveals it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT IT DOES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Blurs gambling content in place — ads, video titles and thumbnails, articles, links, banners — instead of blocking pages • Works on every site: video platforms, news sites, forums, social feeds • Catches betting ads inside ad frames, including image-only banner creatives • Click any blurred item to reveal it — the click is safely swallowed so you never accidentally open a betting link • Blurred items are hover-proof: video hover-previews won't autoplay gambling content on top of the blur ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REAL AI, RUNNING ON YOUR DEVICE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Keyword filters can't tell "I bet he can't move this car" from "Bet $5, get $150 in bonus bets." GambleBlur can, because the decisions are made by Chrome's built-in AI (Gemini Nano) running entirely on your computer: • UNDERSTANDS CONTEXT — casual, figurative uses of words like "bet," "odds," and "stakes" stay visible. Real gambling promotion gets blurred. • READS THUMBNAILS — the AI looks at images, not just text. A slot machine video with an innocent title still gets caught, because the AI sees the reels and the jackpot numbers baked into the thumbnail. • RESPECTS RECOVERY SPACES — gambling-addiction support communities (like problem-gambling forums) are full of gambling words but are the opposite of gambling promotion. GambleBlur recognizes these pages and keeps them readable, while still blurring any actual betting ads served into them. • SAFETY-FIRST TIMING — suspicious content is blurred instantly while the AI double-checks it. Gambling doesn't get to flash on screen while a verdict is pending. 100% PRIVATE: every AI decision happens on your device. No cloud, no API keys, no account, no browsing data ever leaves your machine. Verdicts are cached locally so previously seen content is handled instantly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Fast scanning nominates suspicious content: gambling terms in text, image alt text, and link URLs; known gambling brands and domains in ads and links; banner-sized ad frames. 2. Unambiguous signals — a link to a betting site, a sportsbook brand in an ad — are blurred immediately and permanently. 3. Ambiguous cases go to the on-device AI, which judges the text and, when needed, the thumbnail image, with the page's context taken into account. Only confirmed gambling stays blurred. 4. Optional DEEP SCAN mode goes further: every sizeable image on the page gets an AI vision check, even with zero gambling words nearby. Maximum protection for image-heavy sites, at the cost of more on-device processing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONTROLS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Master on/off toggle • Pause on the current site (per-site allowlist) • Deep scan toggle • Adjustable blur strength (6–30px) • On-device AI status with one-click model setup • Clear the AI verdict cache anytime ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REQUIREMENTS & NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Requires Chrome 138 or newer. The AI uses Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano model, which Chrome downloads once (a few GB) the first time you enable it from the GambleBlur popup. It needs a reasonably capable computer and free disk space — see chrome://on-device-internals for your device's status. • If the on-device model isn't available on your machine, GambleBlur still works using a conservative keyword engine — a lone "bet" will never trigger it. • Honest limitations: ads drawn entirely inside canvas or video elements with no fetchable image can't be visually analyzed, and cross-origin ad frames are detected by their URLs and content signals rather than by reading their pixels. The overwhelming majority of gambling ads and content are caught by the layered detection above. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS, EXPLAINED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • "Read and change data on all websites" — required to detect and blur gambling content in place on any page you visit, and to fetch thumbnail images so the on-device AI can analyze them. Nothing is collected, transmitted, or sold. There are no analytics, no trackers, and no remote servers. • "Storage" — saves your settings and the local cache of AI verdicts. GambleBlur was built for people who want to keep using the web without being ambushed by gambling content — including people in recovery, their families, and anyone who'd rather not see another parlay ad. The web stays fully usable. The triggers get blurred. Blur gambling before you see it.