WhatsApp Privacy Shield

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

WhatsApp Privacy Shield | Enhance Your WhatsApp Web Privacy

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

Users: 7,000+

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

# 12,279 ▲ 81

Other rankings

#205 in Privacy & Security ▼ 1 #31 in whatsapp keyword 49 ▲ 2 #33 in privacy keyword 52 ▲ 3 #94 in whatsapp extension keyword 56 ▲ 8

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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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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 privacy in professional settings
Simple and easy to use
Helps hide personal chats effectively
Works well for WhatsApp chat blur
Helpful extension for remote work environments

Cons

Displays additional ads during Google searches
Has issues with functionality, particularly regarding images
Some users report data privacy concerns
Not consistently reliable, suddenly stops working for some users

Most mentioned

Useful for work and privacy
Simple and easy to use
Problems with images not working
Displays additional ads
Suddenly stopped working for some users

User 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