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Jun 29, 2026
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Chrome extension link: Roach Blocker My partner got jump-scared by a cockroach photo while scrolling, and as an engineer my first thought was "I can probably fix this." A couple of months later, Roach Blocker is live on the Chrome Web Store. What it does: detects cockroach images on any web page and covers them in real time, fully on-device (small YOLO model running via onnxruntime-web). No uploads, no API keys, ~9MB model so it runs fine on low-end laptops. The real lesson wasn't...
Comments (3)
Does it block other bug photos too or just roaches?
what's the detection approach, local ML model or keyword filtering?
the landing page design is the real horror here
