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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Actually not always, there is a script that can recover text from mosaic'd screenshots if the font and pixellation technique is known. I just use a fake mosaic โ€“ the easiest way is to paste a bitmap of non-confidential text from elsewhere in the screenshot and then apply the filter.