Privacy Screen Help

Getting started

1. Click the Chrome puzzle-piece icon and pin Privacy Screen — Automatic Blur & Screen Shield.
2. Open the extension and choose an option from Activation.
3. Choose Blur, White Screen, Black Screen, or a Premium custom shield.
4. Open Advanced settings for profiles, schedules, per-site rules, masking, zones, and licensing.

Disabling protection completely

Select:

Disabled — no screen activation

Disabled mode immediately removes active full-screen protection and prevents all automatic and manual protection triggers.

• Page inactivity
• Browser inactivity
• Computer inactivity or lock
• Pointer leaving the page
• Tab switching
• Chrome losing focus or being minimized
• Per-site automatic protection
• Protect-now commands and keyboard shortcuts
• Saved element masks and privacy zones

The page is still blurred after disabling

1. Confirm the Activation dropdown says Disabled — no screen activation.
2. Refresh the affected webpage once.
3. If the extension was just reloaded from chrome://extensions, refresh every tab that was open before the reload.
4. Confirm another privacy, focus, dimming, or screen-overlay extension is not applying the effect.
5. Close and reopen the affected tab if an older content script remains attached to it.

Reveal controls

• Move the mouse, click, scroll, or press a key when using normal inactivity protection.
• Premium users can hold Alt to reveal temporarily when that option is enabled.
• Premium users can reveal for 5 seconds, 15 seconds, or until the next tab switch.
• Click-and-hold reveal is available when enabled in Advanced settings.

Premium features

Premium costs $14.99 per year and currently includes:

Open the Premium section in the extension side panel to view the current license and purchase access.

License key and verification

The extension obtains its license automatically from Chrome or the Privacy Shield license server. A license key cannot be entered manually.

• Use Copy to copy the displayed key for support or payment records.
• Use Verify after completing payment.
• Premium unlocks when the license server returns accessLevel: FULL.

Element masking

Premium users can right-click a page element and choose the Privacy Screen masking option.

Open Advanced settings to rename, enable, disable, highlight, reselect, or delete saved masks for the current website.

Privacy zones

Premium users can draw a rectangular privacy zone over page content that is difficult to target as a normal webpage element.

Zones can be renamed, enabled, disabled, highlighted, redrawn, or deleted from Advanced settings.

Test Privacy Screen

Use the safe test page to confirm that Privacy Screen is working before using it on websites containing real sensitive information.

The page includes fictitious names, balances, account numbers, forms, tables, dynamic content, an iframe, shadow-DOM content, privacy-zone targets, and scrolling elements.

Website limitations

Chrome prevents extensions from modifying some protected pages, including portions of:

• chrome:// pages
• The Chrome Web Store
• Browser toolbars, the address bar, and bookmarks bar
• Some browser-generated PDF and internal viewer pages

Privacy Screen protects webpage content. It does not prevent operating-system screenshots, screen recording, malware, or someone disabling the extension.