Product
Blank Screen
Many sites refuse to continue without a camera. Blank Screen answers them with a clean, generated feed — no camera hardware involved.
What it does
Blank Screen replaces your camera with a feed generated on your machine and captured as a normal video stream. The site sees a working webcam; your privacy sees nothing leaving the device, because nothing does.
Four kinds of feed
- Color — a calm solid color. The classic.
- Image — any picture from your device: a tidy desk photo, a neutral background, a cute pet.
- Video loop — a short clip (up to 8 MB, stored on your device only) for a natural-looking presence.
- Text — a word on a plain background: “give me a minute”, “camera is broken”, your name.
Honest uses
- Sites that hard-require a camera before letting you into the meeting, when you genuinely have none.
- Keeping your background and home private while still being “present”.
- Saving battery and bandwidth on long all-hands calls.
The line we hold: Blank Screen is not for impersonating anyone or beating identity checks — the other side should never be deceived about who they are talking to. Full position: responsible use.
How it fits with Phone mode
The two modes share one pipeline. If your phone disconnects mid-call, the site automatically falls back to Blank Screen so the call never sees a broken camera — and switches back when the phone returns. You set the Blank feed once; it stands by quietly.
Part of the free extension: the extension.