There's nothing more infuriating than someone on Facebook ruining your next Netflix binge with an "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ALL DIED AND IT TURNED OUT HIS DAD WAS HIS SISTER" kind of post. Everybody hates spoilers, right? That's why Google is working really hard on making sure that they eradicate spoilers from the internet. All of them. 

Wired reports that the tech giant has been awarded a patent that will block details of your favourite TV shows and stop online motormouths from ruining your next episode of Empire or House of Cards. In blueprints filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Google outlines how this will work: your friends' social media updates would be cut off with a warning about a spoiler, with a drop-down option for you to display the full message. 

Of course, Google will need even more access to your personal data to make this work, but by keeping tabs on what shows you're into, it'll be able to block any any info that it thinks you shouldn't see.

There's no word on how the technology could deal with images or gifs containing sensitive information, but at least steps are being made to combat one of the scourges of modern existence. Until Google's new anti-spoiler software arrives, just continue as normal: underneath a rock, glued to your laptop.

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