Social Fixer has a feature that many people may not know about – the ability to “anonymize” the screen you are looking at, to remove any personal-identifying information. The purpose of this feature is to make it easy to post screenshots to sites like Reddit, or use them in presentations, training manuals, or blog posts.

The “Anonymize Screen” menu option is the last one under the wrench menu. Just click it at any time, and your screen will be anonymized. And if you don’t like the colored backgrounds, you can turn them off under Options->Advanced: “When anonymizing, use colors to distinguish users”.

There are two issues to be aware of with this functionality:

1. Facebook’s content is dynamic, so new comments and posts may get loaded into the current page at any time. These things will not be anonymized, since the act of anonymizing the screen only happens once. Of you can always anonymize again!

2. Facebook’s code is continually changing, so they may introduce new tags or structures which Social Fixer doesn’t recognize and doesn’t anonymize. I update this feature with every release to keep it as current as possible, though sometimes it’s not perfect.

If you find this feature useful, please Share it with other people, especially those on sites like Reddit where it would be very convenient. Thanks!

– Matt, developer of Social Fixer