WhatsApp Privacy Blur — Hide Messages, Media & Screen Share Protection
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Enhance your privacy on WhatsApp Web by blurring sensitive UI elements with granular controls, keyboard shortcuts, and smart modes. 🔒 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.