How-to guide

How to blur part of a web page in Chrome

Salaries, faces, emails, API keys, a whole dashboard: with Blurr.ing you can blur any part of any page in a couple of seconds, then screenshot, stream, or screen-share it.

Updated October 2026

Quick answer

There are three ways to blur part of a web page with Blurr.ing: draw a box over a region, click an element to frost exactly that component, or let keyword rules auto-hide sensitive text wherever it appears. Press Ctrl + Shift + YCmd + Shift + Y (Cmd + Shift + Y on Mac) to open the on-page toolbar and pick a mode. Resize the blur to fit, all free and unlimited; with Premium you can also dial the intensity, pin it in place, and have it come back before the page paints on your next visit. Everything runs locally.

Step by step

Blur a page in five steps

There is nothing to configure. From a fresh install it takes under a minute.

  1. 1

    Add Blurr.ing to your browser

    Install the Blurr.ing extension in one click. It works in Chrome and other Chromium browsers such as Edge, Brave, and Arc.

  2. 2

    Open the blur toolbar

    Go to any page and press Ctrl + Shift + Y (Cmd + Shift + Y on Mac), or click the Blurr.ing icon, to open the on-page toolbar. It works on any site and inside iframes.

  3. 3

    Choose a blur mode

    Pick Draw area to drag a box over any region, or Click element to blur a single component. In element mode, hold Alt and roll the scroll wheel to grow the selection from one word up to a whole card or table.

  4. 4

    Resize it, and fine-tune with Premium

    Drag the handles to resize the blur exactly, which is free. With Premium you can also dial the strength from a light haze up to a heavy 20px blur, and pin a blur to a fixed spot so it stays locked over sensitive UI while you scroll.

  5. 5

    Save, or clear when you are done

    A free blur holds while you stay on the page, and a refresh clears it. With Premium, Blurr.ing saves your blurs and re-applies them before the page paints on your next visit. Remove a single blur or wipe them all in one tap, on any plan.

The three blur modes

Draw a region, click an element, or select text

All three are free and unlimited. Use whichever fits what you are hiding.

Draw a box to blur

Drag a rectangle over anything: a salary figure, a face in a photo, a slice of a chart. Everything behind the rectangle turns to frosted glass. It is pixel-precise and works the same over text, images, video, and mixed content.

Click an element to blur

Point at a component and click to frost exactly that element (a table cell, an avatar, a card). Hold Alt and scroll to grow the selection outward from a single word to the whole container.

Select text to blur

Highlight a run of text the way you always do: drag across it, double-click a word, or triple-click a paragraph. Only the text you picked blurs, the layout never shifts, and the whole run stays one blur you can lift in a single click.

Make it fit

Fine-tune every blur

Three controls set what a blur covers and how strong it is.

Adjust the intensity

Turn a blur all the way up when the content must be unreadable, or ease it down to a soft haze when you just want to de-emphasise something.

Resize to fit

Grab the handles and reshape the blur so it covers the sensitive area exactly, with no stray characters peeking out at the edges.

Pin it in place

Pin a blur to a fixed position on screen so it stays locked over a sticky header or a live dashboard while the rest of the page scrolls underneath.

Saved blurs

Saved, flash-free, and easy to undo

A blur tool that redacts after the page loads shows your data for a split second first. With Premium, Blurr.ing saves your blurs and re-applies them before the first paint, across reloads, single-page-app navigation, iframes, and back-button restores. You can still peek underneath or remove a blur whenever you like.

Saved & restored automatically

With Premium, Blurr.ing puts your blurs back the next time you open the page, before it paints. Free blurs last while you stay on the page; Premium brings them back on every visit.

Reveal or remove anytime

Hover any blur for the Reveal pill to peek without deleting it. Remove a single blur with one click, or clear every blur on the page at once.

Automation

Or blur it automatically

Drawing by hand suits one-offs. If you hide the same things every day, let Blurr.ing do it.

Auto-Blur by category

One switch blurs every image, video, avatar, and ad on this page, this whole site, or everywhere you browse.

Smart keyword redaction

Blur sensitive text wherever it appears with 34 built-in presets (emails, phone numbers, card numbers, IBANs, SSNs, API keys, crypto wallets) or your own words, with AND/OR/NOT logic.

A note on privacy: the blurs you draw by hand always stay on your device. Only your Auto-Blur and keyword rules sync to your account when you sign in, so they follow you across devices. Nothing about the pages you hid is ever uploaded.

FAQ

Blurring a page: your questions

What is the fastest way to blur something on a web page?
Press Ctrl + Shift + Y (Cmd + Shift + Y on Mac) to open the Blurr.ing toolbar, then either drag a box over the area you want to hide or click a single element to frost it. The whole thing takes a couple of seconds and works on any site.
Can I blur just one word, or a whole table?
Both. In click-to-blur mode, click an element and hold Alt and roll the scroll wheel to grow the selection outward: from a single word, to a sentence, to the surrounding card or the entire table. Draw-a-box mode lets you frost any freeform region regardless of the page structure.
Will the blur stay hidden when I reload the page?
With Premium, yes. Blurr.ing stores your blurs and blocks the first paint until they are back, so hidden content never flashes into view, even across reloads, single-page-app navigation, iframes, and the back button. On the free plan a blur lasts as long as you stay on the page: it follows an in-app navigation, but a refresh or a new tab clears it.
How do I remove a blur or peek at what is underneath?
Hover any blur to bring up the Reveal pill and peek without deleting it. To take one off, remove that single blur with a click; to reset the page, clear every blur at once the moment you stop presenting.
Can Blurr.ing blur things automatically instead of by hand?
With Premium, yes. Auto Blur frosts entire categories (images, videos, SVG icons, and ads) on a page, a whole site, or everywhere. Blur Text hides sensitive text using 34 built-in presets (emails, card numbers, API keys, and more) or your own words. Your free saved rule lets you run one of these at no cost.

Blur it before you share it.

Free on the Chrome Web Store. Works on any site, no account needed.