TVGuardian - The Foul Language Filter - TVGuardian (2024)

FAQs

How do you get around profanity filters? ›

The TVGuardian automatically detects and filters profanity and other offensive phrases while you watch movies or television shows. TVGuardian is like a smart remote control for your TV that automatically mutes foul language!

Will the TVGuardian work with Internet streaming services like Netflix, Roku, Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Hulu? No. The TVGuardian requires closed-caption information to detect profanity. Internet streaming services do NOT use closed-captioning that is readable by the TVGuardian.

Mentimeter has a free profanity filter that you can select when you create your question. Just select one or more languages from the list in order to filter out profanities from those languages.

It takes time and patience to break a habit. One thing you might try is eliminating one or two curse words at a time, instead of all of them at once. Make a list of curse words and gradually go through the list, eliminating one after another. You will still slip up from time to time, you're only human.

The TVGuardian automatically detects and filters profanity and other offensive phrases while you watch movies or television shows. The TVGuardian monitors the hidden closed-captioning signal and compares those words to its database of offensive words and phrases.

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TVGuardian monitors the hidden closed-caption text in the background while you watch TV. Each word is checked against a dictionary of more than 150 offensive words and phrases. When a foul word or phrase is detected, the TVGuardian automatically mutes the offensive language.

Buy a Fire Stick, Roku, Android TV device, or Apple TV streaming device and hook it up to the TV via HDMI. Your cheapest would be a Roku or Fire Stick. This will let you use Netflix or any other available streaming app on the tv.

Can you block swearing on Netflix? ›

Just slide the language filters according to the range that fits your family, and you'll have filtered out any profanity in your Netflix selection.

In short, there is already a movie streaming service that offers filtering, it's just called Clearplay. It does so legally by allowing you to manipulate legitimately-rented Google Play movies. The difference with Vidangel is that the latter wanted control over the distribution.

To help combat kids seeing mature content, many platforms offer parental controls and Peacock is no different in that regard.

The string of symbols used to replace or obscure written curse words is called grawlix. Some commonly used grawlix symbols include ampersands (“&”), at signs (“@”), exclamation marks (“!”), dollar signs (“$”), and hash symbols (“#”). It's also common to replace some letters in an offensive word with asterisks (“*”).

You can check the keyboard settings of your phone, then look for the “Text Correction” settings and look for the option to “BLOCK OFFENSIVE WORDS”. Then make sure that setting is DISABLED (it is usually enabled by default). It should apply when using voice-to-text.

Is this an Android phone? Try this: Settings → System → Languages & input → Virtual keyboard → Google voice typing → Block offensive words. Switch that off.

To bleep out words in a video, you can use any video editor and place a sound effect or sound bit on top of any profane words or phrases. Some online video editors have royalty-free bleep censors you can use easily by dragging and dropping a sound clip in the place you want to censor.