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Hides your messages until you hover over them.
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Description from store
To increase privacy in public spaces the Privacy Extension For WhatsApp⢠Web blurs your messages. Your messages and other content only reveals upon hovering over with your mouse cursor. Additionally you can quickly toggle all effects by using a keyboard shortcut or by clicking the toggle button in the extension menu.
It adapts to your needs by letting you decide which elements you want to blur. Most important options:
- All messages in chat: Blurs all messages in the current chat.
- Last messages preview: Blurs all message previews on the left.
- Media preview: Blurs all images, videos, stickers, ... in separation from the text.
- Profile pictures: Blurs all profile pictures.
An extended list of features can be found on our page: https://pfwa.lukaslen.com/
Quick Toggle: Use the keyboard shortcut to quickly toggle the extension on or off (Default: Alt+X). To change this navigate to: "chrome://extensions/shortcuts"
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This extension does not collect information about you or your messages. We only communicate with our server to display information about problems or updates. Visit the privacy policy to learn more.
This project is licensed under the MIT license - see the LICENSE file for details.
WhatsApp is a trademark of WhatsApp Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. This extension is an independent project developed by Lukas Lenhardt and has no relationship to WhatsApp or WhatsApp Inc.
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-24) Tasnimul: Just like the guy below me, this works pretty well. I'm confused too on why this has a low rating. Ty developer
- (2025-06-24) SMFS: 24/06/2025 Working splendidly, idk why this gets low rating
- (2025-06-02) Oghenetefa Okotete: Not working
- (2025-05-05) Fajrul Husein: Nice Fav Whatsapp Privacy
- (2025-04-28) Azeem Idrisi: It's a great project, works well on PWA as well on Linux.
- (2025-04-11) Farhan Zahoor: Great work
- (2025-04-09) saurabh kumar: not working now. it was working before.
- (2025-03-19) sudhanshu p: i have tried many extention but this is the best. It has many option where you can blur as per your requirement.like you can blur Profile pics,message,name etc.This is the best.It should have 5 star rating.
- (2025-02-07) Luthfi Rasil: working well
- (2025-01-30) Ahmed Ali: working well for now just installed it lets see what happends next
- (2025-01-15) Yusuf Murtaza: Very useful extention, thanks for who made this!
- (2024-12-28) Mo 7otob: Very useful at work.
- (2024-12-16) Januar Maksum: working perfectly!
- (2024-11-28) Mang Mbud: Good, It's Works. on brave browser. Thx...
- (2024-11-27) Minahil Saleem: It's not working at all this morning
- (2024-11-19) Ias Firdaus: Works perfectly. good options for blur message
- (2024-10-29) Tanvir Hosen: It's working very well. Love it. In my office I'm chatting with my collogue who is my GF. Nobody knows about us that's. That's why Privacy Extension is very important tools for me. Now I'm chatting with her in office but nobody see in my pcđ
- (2024-10-20) Alda Carvalho: Love it
- (2024-09-27) Abhishek Jindal: It's working very well, Thank you
- (2024-09-23) NAEEM: it's working very well, Thank you
- (2024-09-20) ivon man: Overall everything is perfect recently a bug is there THE TEXT INPUT IS NOT GOING GREY OUT as earlier.
- (2024-09-18) Aaqil Abdul Rehman: Text input blur not working now.
- (2024-09-17) Adi Prasetiyo: its not working, now its working
- (2024-09-17) Daiva Mahdyatha: if u guys feel this extension doesnt work, update your chrome to the newest version
- (2024-09-17) Sukma Mardika: not working again
- (2024-09-17) arsya: For god sake plis fix the BUG its been a FEW WEEKS
- (2024-09-16) Pallav Gautam: Not Working.
- (2024-09-15) Hamza Ali: It wasnt working a few days back, but its working now <3
- (2024-09-15) Pavan Kalisetti: not working now
- (2024-09-15) Nadhira Alisa: not working
- (2024-09-14) wulandari sukarno putri: not working these days
- (2024-09-14) PROTEEK BISWAS: not working
- (2024-09-14) fareed pinterest: NNot Working
- (2024-09-14) MOHD IRFAN: NOT WORKING
- (2024-09-13) Gatut Karyendra: its not working for me too....
- (2024-09-12) Tayyaba iqbal: not working for past few weeks
- (2024-09-11) Dan Henderson: Please fix this bug, as your blurr feature is not working.
- (2024-09-11) Muhlis Ahmad Abdillah: it is not working for the past two weeks. Fix it out!!!
- (2024-09-11) Alishba Mumtaz: It was working fine but since the past two weeks it is not blurring the messages! Please fix this bug
- (2024-09-11) saurabh kumar: From past few weeks it stops working
- (2024-09-11) Tommy Oliver: till last week it worked proper now it is not working
- (2024-09-11) Abhilash Karn: Facing issues with its working.
- (2024-09-10) drg. Monica Dewi, MKG, FICD: it doesn't work
- (2024-09-10) mohd mudassir: ITS NOT WORKING
- (2024-09-09) Novi: it doesn't work properly
- (2024-09-09) Nadifa Aulia: why is it sometimes can't working?
- (2024-09-06) Usman Ashraf: i restart it but it can't working properly
- (2024-09-06) Lala Yiu: good extension. everyone who encountered the issue of not working, pls go to "View support hub" at the bottom.
- (2024-09-05) Muhammad Adnan: If any of you is facing the issue that the extension is stop working from the past few days. Simply uninstall and the install it again. it will start working. Thanks.
- (2024-09-05) dewa sunu: need to reinstall and it will be worked again