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Originally Posted on the WebApps community but they suggested it might be off topic and that I should try here instead.

I seem to be seeing more and more articles that have great messages but contain lots of obscene language. This doesn't bother me but it bothers lots of people and I was wondering if there was a site like google translator that could translate obscenities out of a given website/URL.

I understand the contextual-based translation problem inherent in the issue I'm describing and that any such translation tool wouldn't always be very good and certainly wouldn't catch everything. However; I'm just looking for something basic so I can send articles to friends without offending them due to language.

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    If I understand correctly, you want to censor obcenities by translating them into friendlier words? Or is it also okay to remove these words or black them out?
    – Tymric
    Apr 8, 2015 at 21:43
  • Do either apps exist? The former would be preferred but the latter would be acceptable.
    – Randyaa
    Apr 8, 2015 at 22:07
  • Not to my knowledge. I just wanted to get the requirements clear in case someone reading this knows about or decides to write such an app. It's also a good idea to add some more details about the sharing process. Do you expect this app to host a cleaner copy of the webpage that you can link to on their own website, or should it copy the content to a new email message, or to a saved copy on your computer, etc..?
    – Tymric
    Apr 8, 2015 at 22:36
  • Good points. I can work with any of the scenarios you describe but ideally I would like to be able to create a link to any URL (like a url-shortener service) that when visited displays a translated version of the page. I don't really want to create a copy of the site but again... I can work with anything
    – Randyaa
    Apr 9, 2015 at 13:11
  • Such an application does exist. It's called a wordfilter, and there are wordfilters available for multiple languages.
    – Anderson Green
    May 11, 2015 at 23:00

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