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Are you tired of spoiler alerts for entire TV seasons? Google has received a new "anti-spoiler" patent for an online filter to protect users from spoilers. The filter's alerts would block content automatically.
Google's filter would protect users from spoilers for movies, TV, and books. It seems reasonable since search engines are where many users learn about plots and endings.
Due to chats on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks, until now it has been nearly impossible not to learn about the plots about hot movies and TV shows.
Google received the "anti-spoiler" filter patent from the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday. It does not list the variety of websites from which the system would filter spoilers, according to Time.
Documents filed with the USPTO describe software in tablets, phones, and PCs that track users' progress in a TV show, movie, or book. The filter can "talk" to their gadgets and social media feeds, to remove plot spoilers.
If users click on a censored spoiler, they get a spoiler alert. Then if they simply cannot resist the urge to read it, they have the option to override the spoiler alert.
The main demand for a spoiler filter is created from streaming services that are on-demand, such as Netflix. The company's viral campaign page "Living with Spoilers" indicates that it is actually a fan of spoilers.
Although Google has received the patent for the spoiler filter, it may not actually create one, according to WMUR. It has said as such.
Google made a statement that it has patents on "a variety" of different ideas. Some of those ideas do not become "real products."
In any case, perhaps users' need to know would itself override the spoiler filters.
