How to Blur Product Analytics in Mixpanel While Screen Sharing

To hide product analytics in Mixpanel while screen sharing, cover the sensitive numbers and profiles with a pixel-level browser blur like BlurFirst before you present. Blur revenue and conversion figures in your Insights, Funnels and Retention reports, the user profiles in the Users view, and any cohort or project name that reveals strategy. The blur is painted into the page, so it survives Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Loom and every recorder — no Mixpanel permission required.

What Mixpanel shows that shouldn't leave the room

Mixpanel is built for exploration, which means a lot of raw signal is one click away. When you share a Board or open a report to answer a live question, several things end up on screen that you probably didn't intend to broadcast.

• Revenue and conversion numbers in Insights, Funnels and Retention reports — the step-by-step drop-off rates and per-step counts a competitor would love.
• User profiles in the Users view — individual records showing email, name and distinct_id.
• Event property values — the property panel and breakdowns that expose plan tiers, account IDs and internal flags.
• Cohort names — often descriptive of experiments, churn-risk segments or named accounts.
• The project name in the top navigation, which alone can reveal an unannounced product or client.

Watch the Board tiles in particular. A Mixpanel Board stitches many report tiles together on one canvas, each one live, so scrolling a Board can surface a revenue chart two rows below the funnel you meant to discuss.

Why hiding a report isn't enough

You could duplicate a report, strip breakdowns or build a sanitized Board — but that is slow, and the moment someone asks a follow-up you are back in the live view with everything showing. Project permissions govern who can log in, not what leaves your screen when you present. A pixel blur lets you keep your real reports open and simply cover the numbers and profiles that shouldn't be read aloud from the recording.

1. 1

   Install and open your Board or report

   Add BlurFirst from the Chrome Web Store and open the Mixpanel view you plan to share while it is still on your screen.

2. 2

   Box-blur revenue and conversion charts

   Press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y, then drag a rectangle over each Insights, Funnels or Retention chart whose numbers should stay private. The box stays anchored as you scroll the Board.

3. 3

   Element-blur user profiles and cohort names

   In the Users view, click an email, name or distinct_id cell to blur it; click the cohort name or project name to cover those too. Click again to reveal a value on purpose.

4. 4

   Save a per-site profile

   Save the blur for your Mixpanel host so it auto-applies. It stores only CSS selectors and re-applies after Mixpanel re-renders, so tiles stay covered as you move around a Board.

5. 5

   Keep Panic ready

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

Everything stays local. BlurFirst runs its content script in an isolated world with namespaced CSS, so it won't break Mixpanel's charts, and nothing you blur is uploaded — the only network call is a license check. On the Users view, run Scan to detect and blur emails, phone numbers, credit-card numbers, SSNs and API keys automatically; Scan matches patterns, not free-text names, so cover a name column yourself. Note that BlurFirst only affects content inside the browser tab — not other windows or the whole desktop — so share the Mixpanel tab specifically.