feat(privacy): hide names and avatars separately

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#389 feat(privacy): hide names and avatars separately

Status: closed

Owner: nobody

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Updated: 2026-11-07

Created: 2026-11-07

Creator: Anonymous

Private: No

Originally created by: kristofferR

Hide Names & Avatars was one switch. Some people only want to hide faces (for example when screen sharing photos of others), or only names.

Settings → Privacy now has Hide Names and Hide Avatars. The View menu item and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+H still toggle both together: they reveal everything if anything is hidden, otherwise hide both. Installs from before keep their combined setting until either new one is changed (both are optional and fall back to hide_names_avatars). Native recent-conversation menus stay empty while names are hidden.

How the blur splits:

Names keep the data-carrier-private-identity marker; pictures get a new data-carrier-private-avatar marker; <html> carries data-carrier-hide-names and/or data-carrier-hide-avatars.
A picture is judged by what it renders: an img/svg/image, or any element whose computed background loads an image. Every picture inside a name surface or a profile link is marked as an avatar, so Hide Avatars alone covers faces in sender headings and reply attribution.
In profile links, names-only blurs every element that neither is nor holds a picture (whatever its tag); text-only links blur whole. A link whose name cannot be separated from its picture is marked whole as a name, erring on the side of hiding.
The dev-only privacy probe reports both markers.

Over-blur that remains by design: emoji sprites inside a preview fallback surface blur with avatars only; inseparable mixed links blur their picture with names only.

Reviewed over five rounds against browser fixtures in names-only, avatars-only and both, compared with the old combined toggle: no remaining leaks.

Stacked on [#374] (the Privacy tab).

Manual check still needed: run __carrier_mcp_privacy_probe__ with each mode on a live conversation list and thread.

CodeRabbit reviews this change in the combined PR [#394].

Related

Tickets: ~~#364~~
Tickets: ~~#374~~
Tickets: ~~#394~~
Tickets: ~~#401~~

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Keep it up!

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

Originally posted by: kristofferR

⏸️ crq will not request further automated reviews for this pull request.

Reason: CodeRabbit reviews these changes once, in combined PR [#394]

Resume with crq unhold kristofferr/carrier 389.

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Chef's kiss.

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

Originally posted by: kristofferR

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Chef's kiss.

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

Originally posted by: kristofferR

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Keep them coming!

Reviewed commit: 71a8f4874f

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Originally posted by: kristofferR

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Keep them coming!

Reviewed commit: 954931d4fe

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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

Ticket changed by: kristofferR

status: open --> closed
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Anonymous - 2026-11-07

Originally posted by: kristofferR

✅ The administrative hold has been retired because this pull request merged. crq will not request further automated reviews.

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