Social app users lack fine-grained control over visible content
People using chat and social apps want more control over what appears on screen: private message previews can be exposed to bystanders, while unwanted names, stories, or blocked users’ posts may remain visible. The cited platform controls are missing or awkward for these cases, and users want more specific filtering than the options available to them. A cross-site tool could help on supported web versions, but it would not change what a platform delivers or what its native app displays.
For privacy-conscious chat and social-media users. Mentioned from Jan 2024 to Aug 2025 on Bluesky and Stack Exchange.
5 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 4.8/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
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- Momentum
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- Consumers
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What people said
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WhatsApp on PC has a horrible privacy breach: when I open WhatsApp on PC, it shows previews of all my messages for everybody in the room to see. This renders WhatsApp unusable both at work and at home with somebody in the room
Man I wish there was a way to hide messages on Telegram of people you blocked. Just a little "A user you blocked posted a note
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