Stable signalNo paid features detectedHigh-risk permissions

WhatsApp Privacy Shield

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

Users10KCurrent public install base

Rating4.3Store average score

Reviews24Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity

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4.25

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4.25

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2026年7月14日2026年7月20日

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Version0.0.5

ManifestV3

Size272KiB

Languages1English (United Kingdom)

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Overview

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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:

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Store average score4.3Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average4.2Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text23Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews24Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.3. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Kaali Das2024年3月15日

great extension

Taranpreet Singh2023年12月22日

Nice app, meets my requirement to hide data from my colleagues

Sandeep Kumar2023年12月22日

Hiding chats on whatsapp now easy, really helpful

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Privacy enhancement tool for WhatsApp Web that blurs sensitive UI elements to prevent others from seeing your messages and media

Protects user privacy when using WhatsApp Web in shared or public environments by blurring messages, media, profile pictures, and contact names so bystanders cannot read them

User installs extension, opens WhatsApp Web, clicks the extension icon to open the popup, toggles individual privacy features (blur messages, media, profile, names, etc.). Each toggle sends a message to the content script which injects CSS blur filters onto the corresponding WhatsApp Web DOM elements. Settings persist via chrome.storage.sync. Hover-to-reveal lets users temporarily see blurred content.

Target users: WhatsApp Web users who work in shared offices, public spaces, or screen-sharing scenarios / Privacy-conscious individuals

The content script (content.js lines 52-91) contains a hidden promotional feature that injects Google search result ads for 'webholix.com' web development services when users search for website/SEO/digital marketing keywords — this is not disclosed in the store listing and is suspicious adware behavior
The extension requests <all_urls> host permission despite targeting only WhatsApp Web, which is overly broad
Hardcoded WhatsApp Web DOM class selectors (like _ak8k, _akbu) are fragile and will break when WhatsApp updates their UI

Monetization

No paid features detected

All toggle controls (last-messages-preview, media-gallery, text-input, text-chat, profile-picture, all-users-name, unblur-all) are freely accessible in the popup UI with no gating, no license checks, no subscription validation, and no payment flow. The 'pro' keyword hits are false positives from strings like 'profile-picture' and 'productivity' in SVGs. The store description mentions 'Upgrade Your Web Ex' (truncated) but no corresponding paid logic exists in the source code.

Confidence: 90
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / Medium
Login required: No
Reason: The extension works entirely locally using chrome.storage.sync for settings persistence. There is no login UI, no authentication flow, no account creation, and no connection to an external service that requires credentials. All functionality (blur/unblur toggles) is available immediately after installation.

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扩展能力较强：storage
主机权限覆盖范围较宽

Publisher

Webholix

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