How to allow or block Screen Capture on Google Chrome

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Some websites often use getDisplayMedia () or the Desktop Capture Extension API to capture the screen. In some situations, it can be intimidating if you engage in confidential or banking activities using the Google Chrome browser. If you want, you can block screen capture on Google Chrome using the Registry or Group Policy Editor.

How to allow or block screen capture on Google Chrome using GPO

To allow or block screen capture on Google Chrome using Group Policy Editor on Windows 11/10, follow these steps. To use the GPEDIT method, you must first install the Group Policy template for Google Chrome. You can download the template from chromeenterprise.google.

Press Win + R to open the Run prompt. Type gpedit.msc and press the Enter button. Go to Allow or Deny Screen Capture in Computer Setup. Double-click the Allow or Deny Screen Capture setting. Choose the Disabled option. Click OK button.

To learn more about these steps, read on.

At first, you need to open the Local Group Policy Editor on your computer. For this, press Win + R to bring up the Run prompt, type gpedit.msc and hit the Enter button. Then, go to the following path:

Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Google Chrome> Allow or Deny Screen Capture

Here you can find a setting called Allow or Deny Screen Capture. You need to double click on this setting and choose the Disabled option.

Then, click the OK button to save the change.

However, if you want to allow screen capture, you need to open the same setting and choose the Not configured or Enabled option.

For your information, you can allow some sources to capture the screen in Google Chrome. In other words, only the specified sources can capture the Google Chrome screen. For that, you need to open the Allow desktop, window and tab setting for these sources, choose the Enabled option and enter a source like this:

ScreenCaptureConsentedbyOriginsWindowCaptureConsentedbyOriginsTabCaptureConsentedOriginiSameOriginTabCaptureConsented byOrigins

When finished, click the OK button to save the change.

Allow or block screen capture on Google Chrome using the registry

To allow or block screen capture on Google Chrome using the registry, follow these steps:

Press Win + R to bring up the Run dialog. Type regedit and hit the Enter button. Click the Yes option. Go to Policies in HKLM. Right-click on Policies> New> Key. Give it a Google name. Right click on Google> New> Key. Set the name as Chrome. Right-click Chrome> New> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Assign it to ScreenCaptureAllowed. Restart your computer.

Let’s take a look at these steps in detail.

First, you need to open Registry Editor. For this, hit Win + R> type regedit and hit the Enter button. If the UAC message appears, click the Yes button.

Then, go to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies

Here you need to create a subkey. For this, right click on the Policies key, select New> Key and set the name as Google.

Then, right-click on the Google key, select New> Key and name it Chrome. Next, you need to create a REG_DWORD value. To do this, right-click the Chrome key, select New> DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it as ScreenCaptureAllowed.

By default, it contains a data value of 0 and you need to keep it that way to block screen capture on Google Chrome. However, if you want to allow this, you need to double click on this REG_DWORD value and set the value data to 1.

Then, click the OK button and restart your computer. Alternatively, you can also delete the REG_DWORD value as well. For that, right-click on ScreenCaptureAllowed, select the Delete option and click the Yes button.

Like the GPEDIT method, you can allow some sources to allow screen capture in Chrome. For that, you need to right click on the Chrome key, select New> Key and name it TabCaptureAllowedByOrigins. Then, right-click the TabCaptureAllowedByOrigins key> New> String Value and name it as 1.

Double-click it to set the value data as source names. For your information, we have already mentioned the origins above.

How can I enable screen capture in Chrome?

To enable screen capture in Google Chrome, all you need to do is allow the website to capture the screen. However, if you want to disable screen capture in Chrome, you need to follow the guides mentioned above. You can use the Local Group Policy Editor or the Registry Editor to get the job done.

How do I disable screenshots in Google Chrome?

Currently, it is not possible to disable or disable screenshots in the Google Chrome browser. Since there are several ways to capture the screen on Google Chrome browser, it is very difficult to block them all. However, it is possible to disable screen capture from websites with the help of the tutorials mentioned above.

That’s all! Hope this guide helped you.

Read: Browser Extensions to Take a Screenshot in Chrome and Firefox.

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