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[Feature] privacy mode: decrease visual legibility of redacted content #1390
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Originally created by @olets on GitHub (Sep 6, 2024).
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
The post-launch privacy mode conversation to date (starting at https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/1360#issuecomment-1705283827) has focused on blurring not being secure.
Per https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/1360#issuecomment-1705496000, opening this issue to track enhancing the visual privacy of privacy mode.
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
I propose that instead of blurring numbers, we replace them with something else.
Since the effect is purely visual, a convenient way to do this is to switch to a visually illegible font.
https://github.com/christiannaths/redacted-font is a popular visually illegible font. The "script" face works reasonably nicely with the Actual UI.
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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Sep 6, 2024):
✨ Thanks for sharing your idea! ✨
This repository uses lodash style issue management for enhancements. That means enhancement issues are automatically closed. This doesn’t mean we don’t accept feature requests, though! We will consider implementing ones that receive many upvotes, and we welcome contributions for any feature requests marked as needing votes (just post a comment first so we can help you make a successful contribution).
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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Sep 27, 2024):
🎉 This feature has been implemented in #3377 and will be released in the next version. Thanks for sharing your idea! 🎉
@olets commented on GitHub (Oct 3, 2024):
Released in https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/releases/tag/v24.10.0
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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0be1ffdb-4371-4994-b5f4-76374b39b3d3
@joel-jeremy commented on GitHub (Oct 3, 2024):
@olets Thank you for your awesome work on this!
@salixh5 commented on GitHub (Oct 3, 2024):
Just in case there's someone else out there that was wondering how illegible this particular font actually is in this case. There are four distinct symbols/scribbles. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 cannot be distinguished (set 1), as well as 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (set 2). Then comma (,) and dot (.) is another set (set 3) and the minus (-) symbol is unique (set 4).
For example if we take this part from the screenshot above:
You can discern that is some amount between 1,550.55 and 4,994.99 -- should be secure enough for almost all use cases, but maybe to make this 100% solid in all cases some further refinement could be made. In any case shoutout to the contributor working on this I love seeing these improvements.