WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection

Enhance your privacy on WhatsApp Web by blurring sensitive UI elements with granular controls, keyboard shortcuts, and smart modes.

As of June 2026, WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection has 49 users and a 5.00/5 rating from 2 reviews in the Communication category.

Usersup 4800.0 percent+4800.0%
49
49
Ratingno change0%
5.00
2 reviews
Reviewsno change0%
2
Version
2.0
Manifest V3

History

11 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

52.8425-2.8400000000000034Apr 1, 2026Jun 9, 2026
View as table
DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Apr 1, 202612.0
Apr 10, 202635.0012.0
Apr 20, 202665.0012.0
Apr 26, 202675.0012.0
May 4, 202685.0012.0
May 10, 202695.0012.0
May 14, 2026125.0022.0
May 21, 2026115.0022.0
May 27, 2026125.0022.0
Jun 3, 2026285.0022.0
Jun 9, 2026355.0022.0
Now495.0022.0

Permissions & access

Permissions
storage
Host access
*://web.whatsapp.com/*

Screenshots

WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection screenshot 1WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection screenshot 2WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection screenshot 3

About

🔒 The ultimate privacy extension for WhatsApp Web

Tired of people glancing at your screen and reading your WhatsApp messages? WhatsApp Privacy Blur instantly hides sensitive content behind a smooth blur effect — hover to reveal, or lock everything down for screen sharing.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✨ KEY FEATURES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🎛️ GRANULAR BLUR CONTROLS
Choose exactly what to blur:
• Sidebar profile pictures
• Contact & group names
• Last message previews
• Chat header photo & title
• Chat message text
• Media files (images, videos, stickers)
• Desktop notification content

👆 HOVER TO REVEAL
Simply hover over any blurred element to temporarily reveal it. Move away and it blurs again instantly.

🎚️ ADJUSTABLE INTENSITY
Slide the blur intensity from subtle (2px) to heavy (20px) — find the perfect balance for your environment.

🔒 PRESENTATION MODE
One-click lockdown — disables ALL hover reveals. Nothing can be accidentally uncovered during screen sharing, video calls, or presentations.

👁️ PEEKABOO MODE
Click and hold to reveal, release to re-blur. More secure than hover — prevents accidental reveals when moving your mouse.

⏱️ AUTO-BLUR TIMER
Forgot to re-enable blur before walking away? Auto-blur detects inactivity and re-enables protection automatically (5–300 second timeout).

📌 PINNED CONTACTS
Double-click any chat in the sidebar to "pin" it — pinned contacts are never blurred. Perfect for keeping important conversations always visible.

🔔 NOTIFICATION PRIVACY
Hides message content from desktop notifications — shows only "New message received" instead of the actual message text.

⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
Toggle blur instantly:
• Windows/Linux: Alt + B
• macOS: Control + B

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🛡️ PRIVACY & SECURITY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

• ZERO data collection — nothing is sent anywhere, ever
• Works 100% locally in your browser
• No analytics, no tracking, no external servers
• Open source — inspect the code yourself
• Only permission needed: storage (for saving your preferences)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
💼 PERFECT FOR
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

• Screen sharing during meetings & presentations
• Working in open offices or co-working spaces
• Using WhatsApp on public computers
• Protecting privacy from shoulder surfers
• Anyone who values their digital privacy

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚡ QUICK START
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1. Install the extension
2. Open WhatsApp Web — blur is active immediately!
3. Hover over blurred elements to reveal them
4. Click the extension icon to customize settings
5. Use Alt+B (or Ctrl+B on Mac) to toggle on/off

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

This extension is not affiliated with WhatsApp Inc. or Meta Platforms, Inc.

Technical

Version
2.0
Manifest
V3
Size
32.92KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
fidflbjbjiepgleklkfkcconfnajnebi
Developer ID
u342e574a6dfab6f062ff5e19ca112d61
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Mar 12, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
Mar 12, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 9, 2026
Website
Support URL
Privacy Policy

Similar extensions

Alternatives to WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection, ranked by description similarity.

Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 9, 2026.