Google: accepted the anti-spoiler patent, how will it work?

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Very often – when browsing websites, social networks, or forums – you “accidentally” stumble upon spoilers about movie endings, TV series plots, novel narratives, and reality show winners.
The phenomenon is increasingly widespread and often ruins the sense of discovery and curiosity for avid fans or viewers.
Sometimes it’s truly impossible to avoid this kind of mechanism: you suddenly stumble upon the “revelation”, and end up being very disappointed.
The solution to these kinds of incidents – so to speak – could soon come from the search engine giant.
In fact, it is reported that Google has developed a system to “filter” this type of content, naturally giving the user the choice: you can normally continue browsing or you can avoid accessing a specific page.
This mechanism will, in fact, mark content that reveals endings and plots with the message “Spoiler Alert”: this way, the user will decide whether to proceed with the consultation or not.
There is certainly still a lot of work for the Google staff responsible for developing this project, but the first step in this direction seems to have already been taken: it is recent news that Google has filed the relevant patent with the reference body in the United States, the US Patent and Trademark Office. According to information from overseas sources, the office has already given a positive opinion, accepting and granting Google the authorship of the patent.
The path is therefore laid out, at least for the initial part: a system of this kind is certainly difficult to implement, also because not all users may have reached the same point in a TV series.

It is therefore hypothesized that it will probably be necessary to personally set some settings to achieve highly personalized and therefore very reliable results.
Naturally, it is not a given that a patent, however regularly filed, will automatically become a functioning service: not only might this never be implemented, but in some cases, innovations could be used in the future to develop other types of products.
However, it is an indication of the direction Google may want to take regarding websites that deal with these types of topics.