Selective Image Blocker

Name: Selective Image Blocker
Rating: 3.3846153846153846 (13 reviews)
Author: twongers

When visiting webpages, blocks photos of keywords you define. Keywords can be locked with a pin for parental controls.

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Selective Image Blocker is a Chrome extension designed to give you control over the images you see while browsing the web. It lets you block images containing any keywords you specify, helping you avoid unwanted visuals such as snakes, spiders, or any subject you prefer to filter out.

The extension features a parental control option by allowing keywords to be locked with a password or PIN, ensuring filters remain intact. It also dynamically hides images revealed through scrolling, maintaining a consistent browsing experience. While not perfect, it offers an effective way to customize your web content visibility and is especially beneficial for families or users sensitive to certain images.

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Version:

1.1 Last updated: 2020-11-19

Creation date:

2019-04-15

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Size:

149.00KB

Email:

tw*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-12

Ranking

# 40,593 ▼ 408

Other rankings

#607 in Art & Design ▲ 5 #59 in parental control keyword 8 ▼ 1 #275 in image keyword 73 ▼ 22

User reviews

Pros

Effective at blocking unwanted images, particularly NSFW content.
Users appreciate its functionality and the effort of the developer.
Works well for specific keyword blocking.
Good tool for personalizing browsing experience.

Cons

Often relies on blob names instead of searchable text.
Causes browser crashes when adding keywords.
Does not work on YouTube.
Flash of the image occurs before blocking.
Delivers false positives by blocking unrelated content.

Recent reviews

The idea is good. Unfortunately, they tend to use blob names instead of 'Trump' or 'Biden'.. You could filter the blob name, but might as well use your ad blocker which generally lets you pick the item vs typing. I'm sure this is useful to someone though.

Pa*****, 2022-12-17

It is really good at what it does. But I only wish there was an option to just give it words to search for. Like actual text in the image. Then it could filter it out with OCR. This is what I really need. Sometimes it will do it and sometimes it doesn't understand. If you can add a part of the filter where it only looks for words with OCR I would love that!

Ja*****, 2022-11-09

There is still a flash of the image before it is blocked, and it does not work on YouTube

Mi*****, 2021-09-18

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Selective Image Blocker requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

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Selective Image Blocker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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