I was thinking about this the other day. Why does the beep have to be louder than the speech, why does everyone use the same sound, why is there a beep at all? It seems very intrusive and distracting, I think white noise or even just silence would be better for the purpose of censoring.

You said it. Stop TV, YouTube, and social media. Download everything.

Get tinnitus in the same frequency of the tone and it will just kinda blend in.

I know it's so annoying. Like the thing on lemmy that blocks out credit card numbers. I needed to send it to my friend the other week and lemmy was the easiest way, but it blanks it out, here's my number, see? ####-####-####-####

I'm no programmer (not a good one, anyway) but it seems to me that the beeps are all in the same tone, or very similar. I wonder if one could write a program that listens for that tone and simply mutes it. Could be setup as a Firefox extension or something.

I'd like a setting named something like "I'm over 12, so naughty words are cool" or even "my video has beeps so mark it as 'under 12' so only kids see it" because I'd rather the kid stuff was just filtered out.

Ummm

They're called "bleeps"

It's especially aggregious when it's a clip from an adult series. Have fun having every other word be bleeped out because one character is slightly rougher with their language.

It's a simple one frequency sound so a basic band gap filter should do it. Three might be a browser extension that does that.