What's New in DataBlur 3.0
DataBlur 3.0 is here. It adds a faster way to hide whole groups of data at once, three ways to render a blur, a keyword editor built into the toolbar, and profiles you can restore without opening the popup.
It also introduces DataBlur Pro. Every way of hiding data stays free — Pro is for switching off the badge on blurs we apply for you, and for saving named profiles. We spell it out below rather than let you find it on your own.
Blur similar elements
Blur one cell, and DataBlur finds the rest. A sparkles button on any element blur shows a match count, and one click hides every element like it.
It works by cascade: first it tries the table column, then the list item, then selector siblings, then tag siblings. So a customer name in a CRM table hides the whole name column. A row of pricing hides every price.
Why it matters: hiding a column used to be one click per cell. On a busy dashboard that's twenty clicks before you can start your demo. Now it's two.
Blur, Redact or Transparent
A new Settings option controls how blurs render:
- Blur — a frosted overlay. The default.
- Redact — opaque bars. Text is swapped for a block font, so there are no character shapes left underneath to read through the fill.
- Transparent — content hidden, layout intact.
Change the setting and every blur already on the page re-renders live. Styles apply with !important, so a page's own styling can't bleed through your blur.
Why it matters: a light blur over text can sometimes be reversed by software. When you're recording something that will live on the internet, Redact leaves nothing to recover.
Regex in the blur list
The blur list takes full regular expressions now, not just literal words. One rule like /[A-Z]{2,}-\d+/ hides ENG-1422, OPS-318 and every other ticket ID at once, wherever they appear.
New in 3.0: you no longer have to open the popup to edit it. A toolbar button toggles keyword blur on and off, and a chevron beside it opens an in-page editor that mirrors the popup — comma-separated terms, regex via /pattern/flags, and a live item counter. Edits sync both ways and re-scan the page instantly.
Why it matters: you can hide a whole class of data with a single rule, and new matches stay hidden as the page updates. Set the rule once and stop thinking about it.
Profiles from the toolbar (Pro)
Save your blur setup for a site, then restore it later — both from a single Profiles panel in the toolbar, without opening the popup. Restore to this host or to all hosts. Saving now captures path-scoped blurs too, not just host-scoped ones.
Profiles are part of DataBlur Pro. Worth being clear about the difference: on any site you blur, your blurs already come back on their own next time — that's free and unchanged. Profiles are for naming a setup and re-applying it deliberately, including to sites you haven't blurred yet.
Why it matters: set it up once for the sites you demo most, and it's ready every time you open them.
Peek with Alt
Hold Alt and hover a blurred element to check what's under it. Release, and it hides again. The blur is never removed.
The peek reveal, the pointer fill and the blur outline all got dedicated colour tokens in 3.0, so they stay legible on white and light pages where they used to nearly disappear.
Why it matters: confirm you blurred the right thing mid-demo, without showing it to anyone watching.
A guided tour on first install
New installs now get a short tour that walks through the toolbar. It closes when you close the toolbar.
Free and Pro
DataBlur 3.0 is also the release where DataBlur Pro launches. Here's exactly what that means.
Every way of hiding data stays free. Manual blur, auto-detection, the blur list with regex, blur similar elements, all three blur styles, Peek, keyboard shortcuts, and your blurs coming back on the sites you've already blurred. No time limit, no account, no cap on how much you hide.
Free puts a badge on blurs we apply for you. When DataBlur hides something on its own — auto-detection, or a blur list match — a small "Blurred with Datablur" badge sits on it. Blurs you create by hand never carry one.
Pro is $39 once, or $4.99 a month — details on the DataBlur Pro page. It gets you:
- The badge becomes yours to switch off. It stops being permanent and turns into a setting.
- Named profiles. Save a page's blurs under a name and re-apply them whenever, to one site or all of them.
- Cloud sync for profiles, in a follow-up release.
- Priority email support.
We landed here after looking at how DataBlur actually gets used. Most people blur once and move on, so charging for the act of hiding data would be a toll on the thing you installed this for. The people who want the badge gone are mostly creators publishing tutorials, and the people who want named profiles are the ones demoing the same three sites every week. Both are getting real value out of DataBlur, so those are the two things we charge for — and nothing that hides data is behind them.
If you already have DataBlur, you get a 30-day Pro trial. Everyone installed before the rollout automatically gets it, no key needed.
Get 3.0
That's DataBlur 3.0: blur similar elements to hide a group at once, Redact for the recordings that matter, regex and the toolbar keyword editor, profiles you can restore in place, and a Peek key that stays visible on any page.
If you want the full picture on when and how to blur during screen sharing, our screen blur guide walks through it.
DataBlur updates automatically. If you'd rather not wait, you can grab it now from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons.