Reveal what Protego is filtering
Reveal Mode puts the filtered posts back on the page, ringed and tagged with the rule that caught each one.
You added politic* a week ago and the feed has been quiet ever since. Quiet
because the filter is doing its job, or quiet because you typed it wrong?
Protego can put the answer on the page in front of you, so a filter you are
unsure of becomes something you check rather than something you delete just to
see what it was catching.
See the posts your filters caught
Switch on Reveal Mode and the posts your filter lists caught stop being hidden. Each keeps its place in the feed, and a floating pill counts the matches, so an overreaching filter gives itself away in one scroll. Your filters are unchanged while the mode runs. Comments, ads, and everything the Transform settings take off the page stay gone.
Find out which rule caught a post
A revealed post carries a ring and a badge: Keyword, Community, User or Domain, plus the entry that matched. One Protego still remembers filtering, but that no current rule explains, reads Filtered earlier and names nothing. Where the card shows the matched text, Protego highlights it in place, so a keyword wildcard that reached too far is visible rather than guessed at.
Turn Reveal Mode on and off without leaving Reddit
The Protego button in Safari’s toolbar carries the switch, Reveal Mode and then Exit Reveal Mode. The mode covers the tab you started it in, and anything that loads a fresh page ends it: a reload, or any link on old Reddit. Leaving early is one tap, on the pill’s close button or in the popup.
Know that filtering happened without revealing posts
Filter Notifications puts a brief notice on the page when posts there were filtered, so a quiet feed is confirmed rather than suspected. The notice says that filtering happened, never what was filtered. Off shows nothing, Standard (the default) shows at most one per page, and Live also shows one whenever newly loaded posts are filtered as you scroll.
Turn off the filter that went too far
A badge names the entry that caught a post, so there is rarely any guessing about which of your filter lists to open. Every entry carries its own Enabled switch: turn it off and those posts come back, or narrow the wording and leave the rest of the list working. Reveal Mode decides nothing on its own.