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A few months ago we ran into such concept while chatting with a fellow programmer. But instead, we thought about using such filter to count appearances of brands in youtube videos. If their product works I bet this dudes will be bought by some corporateion and their app/filters will be used for sth like that.

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>If their product [unlogo] *works I bet this dudes will be bought by some corporateion and their app/filters will be used for sth like that.

Erm, I bet it will be used to replace company logos/brands with ads/logos of other companies that have paid the video distributor (YouTube FTW!) instead.

Indeed I'd be highly surprised if this were not the goal all along.

Indeed I'd be highly surprised if this were not the goal all along.

Yeah, I didn't want to put it that way...

Jeff Crouse (creator of Unlogo) here. I can guarantee you that is not the goal. I have been working on open source, hacktivist projects for over 5 years. Please see my website: http://www.jeffcrouse.info

google would be a good fit. analyse the youtube library and sell the stats to the companys. but i guess they're already working on something like that. if not someone in mountainview owes me a beer.

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