WhatsApp Privacy Shield

WhatsApp Privacy Shield steps in as your digital guardian, allowing you to blur your chats and profile information seamlessly.

What is WhatsApp Privacy Shield?

WhatsApp Privacy Shield is a custom Chrome extension designed to enhance privacy on the WhatsApp Web platform. It allows users to hide messages, media previews, and profile information for a more secure messaging experience. With customizable settings and a hover-to-reveal feature, users can take full control of their privacy while using WhatsApp Web.

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Extension stats

By: Webholix

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 7,000+ ▲ 1,000

Rating: 4.28 (25)

Version: 0.0.5 (Last updated: 2024-05-09)

Creation date: 2023-12-22

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 278.53K

Email: we*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 12409 ▲ 911

Other rankings

#189 in Privacy & Security ▼ 1 #29 in privacy keyword 50 ▲ 2 #33 in whatsapp keyword 44 ▲ 1 #94 in whatsapp extension keyword 54 ▲ 4

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Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Privacy Shield for WhatsApp Web: Enhance your privacy on the WhatsApp Web platform with our custom extension. Take control of your messaging experience by hiding messages, images, and your account profile.

Key Features:

Message Privacy: Blur messages in chat and hide message previews for enhanced privacy. Explore dark mode and other privacy features.

Media Privacy: Blur media previews, including images, videos, and stickers. Keep your media content concealed until you choose to reveal it.

Profile Privacy: Blur your profile picture for increased anonymity. Control who sees your profile information.

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Very useful for hiding WhatsApp chats and maintaining privacy in professional environments.
Simple and easy to use interface.
Helpful for users who have faced issues with other similar extensions.
Works well for WhatsApp chat privacy and blur functionalities.

Cons

Manipulates Google search results, showing its own website inappropriately.
Displays additional ads during Google searches.
Not functioning properly for images in WhatsApp chats.
Some users reported that it suddenly stopped working or had issues thereafter.

Most mentioned

Useful for work and maintaining privacy.
Simple and clean design.
Issues with functionality for images.
Concern over data stealing and ad display.

Recent reviews

It manipulates Google search results by placing its own website at the top of the page, even when it's not relevant to the search query. This is misleading, disruptive, and makes me lose trust in the extension. I