Observed arrival · 2026-10-16
VOD Blur: a privacy screen for streamers
A free browser extension lets streamers blur or cover parts of videos and web pages before their browser is captured on stream.
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✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
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- For
- Streamers showing videos, shopping, or web pages live
- Worth noticing
- Shapes are stored relative to the video picture, excluding black bars, and move with it through theater mode, fullscreen, and resizing.
Field notes
The extension modifies what the browser displays before capture, according to the page, so streamers can mask details in video, checkout, or messaging views. Shapes can be saved for a video, a section of a site, or the whole site; a site overview groups saved shapes for cleanup. The page also describes a shortcut that hides all shapes temporarily without deleting them.
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○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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