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tomer8007 / whatsapp-web-incognito

A Chrome extension that disables read receipts and presence updates on WhatsApp Web
MIT License
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Hide Sidebar feature #174

Open IsaacHatton opened 2 months ago

IsaacHatton commented 2 months ago

This is a privacy feature for when someone else is able to see your screen when you are using WhatsApp.

The contacts and message previews are hidden unless the mouse is hovering over them.

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This has a settings checkbox.

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I'm not sure that my text descriptions of the feature are very clear, please can you give me any suggestions as to how they can be changed?

tomer8007 commented 2 months ago

Thank you for your work. Do you know there are a few extensions in the web store that blur your chats for privacy, like this feature you added? I am wondering if this is something we want to have in WAIncognito. I guess if someone wants to hide their chat this, they will also want to hide the actual chat panel.

Also, you seem to forgot closing the parentheses in the description of the option.

IsaacHatton commented 2 months ago

Hi, I've just made a commit to fix the missing bracket.

These extensions have features that blur chats for privacy: (non-exhaustive list) https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-extension-for-wha/jbojhlhhggfmmkpefknmbdhlaghehini https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/whatsup+-for-whatsapp-web/lpbkofhnclhhlaibcklkgaonbbmhjecon (seems to offer it, but I can't tell clearly) https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wa-web-plus-by-elbruz-tec/ekcgkejcjdcmonfpmnljobemcbpnkamh (you have to look at the linked website to see that it is a feature) https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/whatsapp-extension-privac/cgipcgghboamefelooajpiabilddemlh https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-whatsapp/fadfgobhjoibmjilddjdkeppljcmpbii https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/whatsapp-privacy-shield/onlkfegkceehglppejbjphgkdclgaall

tomer8007 commented 2 months ago

These extensions have features that blur chats for privacy

Right, so do you think it should be a feature here when people can just download one of the extensions you listed?

IsaacHatton commented 2 months ago

These extensions have features that blur chats for privacy

Right, so do you think it should be a feature here when people can just download one of the extensions you listed?

My apologies I think I misunderstood you initially, as we already have some feature overlap with the other extensions. If we are trying to avoid overlap, then this is probably not a necessary feature.

Do you think that hiding the sidebar completely would be in-scope for this extension?

tomer8007 commented 2 months ago

Do you think that hiding the sidebar completely would be in-scope for this extension?

I tend to think that at least for now, it will not be worth the maintenance, given there is no added value here over other extensions. Maybe we'll add that if other people will support this.

Again I appreciate your contributions for this project though