Blur Background for Google Meet™

Blur out your background during Google Meet calls. Protect your privacy!
What is Blur Background for Google Meet™?
Blur Background for Google Meet™ is a user-friendly Chrome extension allowing users to blur their backgrounds during Google Meet video calls. This helps to maintain privacy and covers up any disturbances in your environment. Users have full control in terms of enabling and disabling the blur function. The extension is designed to remember user settings for a seamless user experience; however, it is developed by an independent team and is not endorsed or sponsored by Google.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Version: 3.0.0 (Last updated: 2023-10-18)
Creation date: 2021-01-11
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 606.21K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Blur Background for Google Meet™ (v1.0.1)
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Extension summary

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Want to use a different background when you're in an online video call using Google Meet or hangouts meet?

Protect your privacy today by blurring the background whenever you are inside a Google Meet call?

Want to hide your surroundings/is your room super messy at the moment? Too lazy to tidy up after being on non-stop video conferencing calls?

Just install this extension today and you can go on video calls without any stress/anxiety on how messy your room is.

To begin using this extension, simply go inside a Google Meet video call. On the options page of our extension, choose whether to blur the background or not. If the blur feature is NOT working, simply switch off your web camera and turn it back on.

Protect your privacy today and blur the background during your Google Meet video calls.

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • easy to use
  • effectively blurs background
  • good for improving video quality
Cons
  • blurs face along with background
  • not very helpful for some users
  • performance issues
Most mentioned
  • works but blurs face
  • easy to use
  • nice extension
Recent reviews
It works! Not perfect but gets you out of trouble
by Anareli Fernández, 2024-11-20

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by felycicia, 2024-11-19

by Christian Ciaccia, 2024-09-21
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Blur Background for Google Meet™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Blur Background for Google Meet™ has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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