How to Blur Metrics and User Data in Amplitude While Screen Sharing

To hide metrics and user data in Amplitude while screen sharing, cover them with a pixel-level browser blur like BlurFirst before you present. Blur active-user counts, revenue and conversion charts, the user lookup with emails and IDs, and any cohort or segment definition that reveals strategy. The blur is painted into the page, so it holds up on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Loom and every recorder — it isn't an Amplitude setting a viewer could switch off.

The Amplitude surfaces that expose more than you think

Amplitude puts growth metrics and individual user records side by side, and both are sensitive on a shared screen. When you open a dashboard or answer a question in a chart, several things end up visible that shouldn't be in the recording.

• Active users, revenue and conversion charts — DAU/WAU/MAU trends, revenue lines and funnel conversion rates that reveal the health of the business.
• The user lookup — individual profiles showing email, user ID and device details.
• The User Sessions and User Journeys detail — a timeline of one person's events, which can identify a specific customer.
• Cohort and segment definitions — the property filters that describe experiments, churn-risk groups or named accounts.
• The org and project name in the top navigation, which can reveal an unannounced product or client.

Amplitude dashboards re-render as you interact. Change a date range, switch a segment, or open a chart in full screen, and the panels repaint with fresh values — so hiding something by scrolling won't keep it hidden once the view updates.

Why permissions and sanitized dashboards fall short

Building a scrubbed dashboard for every call is slow, and the second someone asks a follow-up you are back in the live chart with everything showing. Roles and permissions control who can log in, not what leaves your screen when you present from your own account. A pixel blur keeps your real dashboards open and covers only the metrics and user records that shouldn't be read from the recording.

1. 1

   Install and open your dashboard

   Add BlurFirst from the Chrome Web Store and open the Amplitude dashboard or chart you plan to share while it is still on your screen.

2. 2

   Box-blur the metric charts

   Press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y, then drag a rectangle over each active-users, revenue or conversion chart whose numbers should stay private. The box stays anchored as you scroll the dashboard.

3. 3

   Element-blur the user lookup and cohort names

   In a user lookup or the Sessions/Journeys view, click an email, user-ID or device cell to blur it; click a cohort or segment name and the org/project label to cover those too. Click again to reveal a value on purpose.

4. 4

   Save a per-site profile

   Save the blur for your Amplitude host so it auto-applies. It stores only CSS selectors and re-applies after Amplitude re-renders, so panels stay covered when a dashboard refreshes.

5. 5

   Keep Panic ready

   Press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H to blur the whole page instantly if a segment change or drill-down surfaces something you weren't ready to show.

It all runs locally. BlurFirst's content script lives in an isolated world with namespaced CSS, so it won't break Amplitude's charts, and nothing you blur leaves the browser — the only network call is a license check. On a user lookup, run Scan to detect and blur emails, phone numbers, credit-card numbers, SSNs and API keys in one pass; it matches patterns, not free-text names. Remember that BlurFirst only covers content inside the browser tab — not other windows or the whole desktop — so share the Amplitude tab, not your full screen.