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“privacy”
14 posts
Tutorials··10 min readHow to Remove and Replace Objects in Photos Without Uploading Them
A precise browser-local workflow for selecting an object, refining its mask, reconstructing the space it occupied, and placing a real replacement asset as an editable layer — without sending the photo to a server.
Tutorials··11 min readFrom Long Video to Captioned Highlights: A Browser-Local Workflow
Turn a long clip into reviewed highlight ranges, transcribe its latest edited audio, correct timed captions, and export a shorter captioned result while keeping the work on your device.
Tutorials··8 min readRemoving Unwanted Objects from Video in Your Browser: Click, Track, Erase
The rebuilt object remover in the NSS Video Editor lets you click an object to select its full outline, draw a box, or auto-detect licence plates — then remove, blur, or pixelate it across the clip, entirely on your device. Here is how the selection, tracking, and fill actually work, and where the honest limits are.
Tutorials··7 min readWhat Your Videos Know About You: Stripping Hidden Metadata Before Sharing
Videos recorded on a phone carry GPS coordinates, device details, and precise timestamps in the file itself. Here is what a video file actually embeds, how our in-browser remover strips it without re-encoding a single pixel, and — honestly — what stripping cannot remove.
Product & Mission··8 min readWhy AI Models Download Once — and How to Keep Them Ready Offline
Learn why on-device AI needs a first-run model download, what NSS stores in your browser, how pre-download and durable storage prepare background removal for offline use, and how to reclaim space safely.
Product & Mission··6 min readOne-Time-Use by Design: Why We Removed Saving and Collaboration
We deleted account-free project saving, session history, and live collaboration from the editors — on purpose. Here is the reasoning: a tool that stores nothing is a stronger privacy promise than one that stores things carefully.
Tutorials··9 min readBringing Old, Faded Family Photos Back to Life in the Browser
Scanned a box of faded, creased family prints? An honest, in-browser workflow to correct colour, recover size for reprinting, and preserve heirlooms without uploading a single pixel.
Technical Deep Dives··9 min readWhat's Actually Inside an AI-Generated Image — and How to Strip It
AI image generators quietly stamp their output with provenance data — C2PA manifests, prompt strings, generator tags. Here is what is actually inside an AI-generated image, why it is there, and how to inspect and strip it losslessly without wrecking the pixels.
Product & Mission··7 min readBrowser AI vs. Cloud API: Who Actually Sees Your Images?
When a tool runs AI in your browser, your files never leave the device. A clear comparison of client-side ONNX/WebGPU inference vs. cloud APIs — on privacy, cost, latency, and offline use.
Technical Deep Dives··6 min readWe Run the Model in Your Browser Instead of Our Server. Here's the Real Tradeoff.
Client-side background removal is a set of concrete engineering tradeoffs, not just a privacy slogan. What you gain (privacy, zero marginal cost, offline) and what we pay (download size, device variance) and how we manage each.