# Private monitors?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-monitors/816842
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-monitors/816842 "2018-06-27T14:36:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-monitors/816842/1 "2018-06-27T14:36:39Z")
I was watching a YouTube video and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_pkWzy0_o) instructional video was in the “up next” column–basically, showing how to peel the polarizing filter off an LCD monitor then view it through polarized glasses–if you aren’t wearing the glasses, you can’t read the screen. Now I’m wondering if anyone makes/has made something like this commercially. I don’t need one, but seems like an easy enough product to make.
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-monitors/816842/2 "2018-06-27T15:09:43Z")
There are privacy screen add ons for monitors that I’ve seen people use.
[Here’s one](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077VFGGN1/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B077VFGGN1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=1713835751726239774&pf_rd_r=6VH8KQRDGMVH0T9VW36B&pd_rd_wg=czE65&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&pd_rd_w=xd2Y8&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pd_rd_r=eea4e707-7a1b-11e8-a2b2-31430e65640c)