Social Privacy Shield

Blur private content on WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat & Messenger. Smart blur, panic mode, presentation mode and more.

Protect your private conversations with Social Privacy Shield, a privacy extension designed to keep sensitive content hidden while you browse, work, study, present, or share your screen. The extension automatically blurs selected content and lets you reveal it only when you need it. Privacy controls can be customized for each supported social platform. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Smart Blur Automatically blur sensitive content when a supported page opens. • Messages • Contact and group names • Profile pictures (including status-ring photos) • Images and media • Videos • Voice messages • Stickers • Links • Last seen information • About / Bio • Chat previews • Unread badges • Emojis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website-Specific Controls ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Customize privacy settings independently for WhatsApp Web, Instagram, Snapchat Web, and Messenger. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁 Reveal Controls ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Hover to reveal • Click to reveal • Hold a keyboard key to temporarily reveal content • Tap to reveal on supported touchscreen devices Release the configured key or move away from the content to restore the blur. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ Temporary Reveal ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Temporarily reveal protected content and automatically restore privacy afterward: 10, 30, or 60 seconds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👀 Per-Chat Eye Reveal ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Reveal only the conversation you need while every other chat stays protected. • An eye button appears on each chat in WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and Messenger • Your password is required first (when password protection is on) • Then choose exactly what to reveal for that one chat: Avatars, Names, Messages, Images, Emojis, Stickers, Videos, Voice, Links, Last Seen, Preview, Badges, About • Reveal everything for the chat with one tap, or hide it again • Reveals reset on page reload, Panic, or Lock ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔐 Password Protection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Add a local password to protect sensitive extension controls. Password protection can be required for: • Protected page reloads • Extension popup • Settings • Reveal controls and the per-chat eye • Voice message playback • Taking a screenshot on purpose • Security-related changes Set two separate passwords during first-time setup: an unlock password and a removal password. Passwords are stored as SHA-256 hashes rather than plaintext. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗑 Removal Protection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The removal password is required to use "Remove Extension" and "Reset All Settings" inside the extension • Wrong guesses are rate-limited • Note: Chrome's own Remove button cannot be intercepted by any extension. Administrators can lock the extension in place with Chrome enterprise policy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 Screenshot Protection (best effort) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Covers the page and re-blurs everything when Print Screen is pressed, and clears the clipboard • On Windows, holding the Windows key covers the page (Win+Shift+S) • Optionally covers the page while its window is not focused • Printing and Save as PDF are blocked • Take a screenshot on purpose from the eye panel: "Capture now" (saved to your Downloads folder) or "Allow 30 s" — both behind your password • Turns off automatically when Privacy Blur is off Websites and extensions cannot block operating-system screenshot tools, screen recorders or phone cameras. This is a strong deterrent, not a guarantee. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕵 Inspect & Session Protection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Blocks right-click, F12, Ctrl+Shift+I/J/C and Ctrl+U on protected sites • Anything typed into the browser console that reads cookies or storage receives random fake values (the website itself is not affected) • Follows the Privacy Blur switch This is a deterrent only; the browser's Developer Tools menu can still show real data unless disabled by an administrator policy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔄 Reload Lock ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Choose which supported websites require authentication after a page reload while keeping other privacy protections active. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 Voice Message Protection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ When enabled, playback is paused until the correct password is entered. This can be disabled from Security settings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 Fake Chat Mode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Replace real messages with harmless placeholder text when you need to demonstrate or share your screen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 Presentation Mode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Designed for presentations, meetings, classrooms, screen sharing, and demonstrations. Displays a privacy overlay and keeps protected conversations hidden. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖥 External Display Detection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Automatically enter Presentation Mode when a second display is connected. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 Panic Button ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Press ESC three times to instantly re-apply the blur. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Auto-Lock ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Automatically lock protected content after a configurable period of inactivity, or when switching to an inactive browser tab. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 Schedule Mode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Automatically apply your privacy settings during selected days and times. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📶 Trusted Networks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Configure trusted Wi-Fi networks where privacy protection can be disabled automatically. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎚 Blur Strength ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Low, Medium, High, Extreme, Pixelated, or a custom radius. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 Touchscreen Reveal ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • First tap → Reveal • Second tap → Interact • Tap elsewhere → Re-blur ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Ctrl + Shift + B → Toggle blur • Ctrl + Shift + P → Presentation Mode • Ctrl + Shift + H → Toggle reveal mode • Ctrl + Shift + L → Instantly lock • Hold Ctrl → Temporarily reveal • ESC ×3 → Panic Mode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌙 THEME SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Works with light and dark interfaces, including WhatsApp's light and dark themes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ SMART PERFORMANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Protection starts when the page loads • Newly loaded content is detected automatically • Dynamic conversations remain protected • Blur settings can be changed without restarting the extension • Configuration is stored locally using Chrome Storage ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Conversation and media processing stays inside the browser ✅ No external transmission of conversations or media ✅ Passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes; the removal password is never exported ✅ Screenshots taken with "Capture now" are saved only to your own Downloads folder ✅ An optional feedback form may open after uninstall; nothing is sent unless you submit it ✅ Protected settings and controls ✅ Locked pages remain obscured ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💾 SETTINGS & BACKUP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Export settings as JSON • Import settings from JSON • Reset settings to defaults Keep sensitive conversations hidden until you're ready to reveal them.