This Privacy App's Painfully Funny Site Shows the Dangers of Sharing Your Screen at Work

Muzzle illustrates exactly why it mutes incoming messages

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Most app landing pages are pretty utilitarian fare, tersely telling you what the app does and making the download button relatively prominent. Maybe it throws in a glowing review snippet or two.

The guys behind Muzzle, though, decided to do things a bit differently.

The MacOS app lets you mute notifications while sharing your screen, such as when giving a presentation to a client or colleagues. So they decided to promote it by creating a site that generates fake—and, of course, cringe-inducing—notifications alongside the side of your screen.

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