Screen privacy, practically

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What screen sharing actually exposes and what genuinely hides it. Verified against the meeting apps' own documentation, honest about the limits, and short on mystique.

Written by Artyom Shimanski Updated August 28, 2026 RSS

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What can people see when you share your screen?

Entire screen, one window, or one browser tab: each mode draws a different line around what viewers can watch. Where notifications, autofill dropdowns, tab titles and your cursor land on each side of that line in Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

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The evergreen guides

The reference pages behind these articles: the blur gestures, the pre-meeting checklist, and the feature deep dives.

How to blur part of a web page

Draw a box, click an element, or select text. The three free gestures, from install to hidden.

How to redact a screenshot

Bake the blur into the page before you capture, so no original data hides in the file.

Screen-share privacy checklist

The full pre-meeting routine in checkbox form: mode, notifications, tabs, and blurs.

Hide tab titles while sharing

Tab Privacy masks every tab title and favicon behind one of 17 disguise styles.

Blur for screen sharing

Hide salaries, customer data and dashboards live on Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams.

Who writes this

Artyom Shimanski

Founder, Blurr.ing

I am a software developer, and I build Blurr.ing along with the Post Formatter family of small web tools. I write about the practical side of screen privacy: what sharing your screen actually exposes, and what genuinely hides it.

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