Inspiration
Today more and more people are exploring the vast seas of the world wide web. Like the ocean, the internet can be a dangerous place where bullies are just as harmful as pirates and sea monsters. We understand that cyber bullying is a real pressing issue that affects millions of children and adults. As developers, we feel obligated to fend off these vicious attempted attacks through protecting the innocent through creating a defensive word replacement system plug-in for Google Chrome.
What it does
Safer Surfer is Google plug-in that gives surfers of the internet a gnarly and radical experience while safely riding the waves of the world wide web. Safer Surfer allows users of Google Chrome the complete freedom to explore any webpage with the safety of all profanity to be censored to a cleaner, less emotionally scarring version. Unlike many traditional web censoring services that block out certain sites, Safer Surfer provides more protection by modifying the text on the webpage instead of attempting to block content that is sometimes missed by the traditional web censoring services. Safer Surfer currently has around 350 triggering and profane phrases which it substitutes with kinder, cleaner, and more politically correct phrases. Safer Surfer is also able to add words to its "naughty list" with user replaced words, ever expanding its library and making it ideal for educational purposes or for more sensitive environments. Safer Surfer also includes a feature which rates how clean the website is by counting the number of buzzwords on the site. This feature can be a great tool for educators for providing guidance to what websites are safe to use as sources for school projects for students.
What's next for Safer Surfer
Safer Surfer may be modified in the future to access a database full of even more insensitive words and phrases. This database would receive submissions from users. Admins then would approve or disapprove the word for censoring. Another add on for Safer Surfer that we would like to implement in the future is the ability to filter out profane images and replace them with happier pictures... such as puppies and lollipops.
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