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3M Privacy Filter / Screen Review
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May 30, 2025
Ever wonder who's watching your computer screen when you're working on an airplane, in a cafe or at another public venue? Then you're going to love the cool 3M Privacy Filters, as demonstrated and explained by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here and hey I see you
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looking over my shoulder I see you
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wondering what I'm doing on my laptop
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right here and that's what I want to
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talk about today I want to talk about
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these super cool 3m privacy shields now
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you know 3m they make scotch tape and
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post-its and all this stuff but they
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make some really cool privacy stuff too
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and the best way for you to understand
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what I'm talking about is watch my
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screen all right can you see there that
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it's sort of this big gold reflection
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and my screens on for real I really have
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content on there but it's not until you
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get directly facing it that you can see
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what's on there and then once you get at
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any sort of angle it goes away pretty
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darn fast and so what's really cool
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about this is it it's just a film that
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you don't live doesn't even stick on to
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your screen it just has like little
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adhesive things that go down the sides
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and you sort of smack it on and it
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basically gives you privacy so that
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anyone who's looking at your computer
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from an angle as they're walking past
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you or something then they see nothing
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they just see reflection now there does
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have a slight cost and acuity so I'll
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show you again that's just on the screen
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I know you see gold how cool is that but
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so if I'm looking here's sort of the
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center of my focus and notifications
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that come up on the edges can sometimes
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cause me to have to tilt my head
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slightly but I really like this the cost
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in terms of brightness and the sort of
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clarity of the screen is really really
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minimal and in fact if you turn the
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brightness all the way up then you're
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pretty much don't even realize that it's
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on there it's slightly more reflective
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and glossy maybe than your regular
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laptop screen but otherwise it gives you
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the same experience but all those people
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sitting in the seats next to you and the
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airplane or the person who's just
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happens to be two seats back at the cafe
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and they're like hmm let's watch what
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this guy is working
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none of that works they can't see it
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it's just you now turns out they make it
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in two colors so here's our prop right
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so the gold is the one that I actually
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have installed and then they also have
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it in a gray and the difference is that
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from what I've read online from other
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people the gray is actually slightly
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less how to how to put it it has less
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effect on your screen so it's slightly
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less invasive perhaps might be the right
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word but the gold I think is really cool
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because it's gold so it just looks
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really cool and again here you go seeing
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its gold I mean isn't that kind of cool
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anyway
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3m privacy shields or privacy filters
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and they run about thirty to fifty at
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Amazon in the different colors they have
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them for a lot of different laptops this
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is a MacBook Pro whatever you have they
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probably have one for you and they're
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designed to go and you know on and off
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multiple times each one and as you know
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I have sort of here the ability to
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carefully pull the whole thing off and
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put it back into its envelope which is
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why they have these great heavy
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envelopes and really pretty cool you
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want more effect turn your brightness
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down even further and I'll show you what
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that looks like so here you're starting
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to see it but as I turn my brightness
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down you sort of lose the image but even
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here now you can't see it at all unless
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we go straight on and yeah I know you're
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getting a little bit of the light
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reflection there but if we go straight
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on then you can see it but now here just
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as an example if I turn the brightness
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all the way up it suddenly pops
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and even with this again I turn to here
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and now you can't see what's on my
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screen anymore so I work a lot in public
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spaces a privacy shield is a great
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addition to my device this is the 3m
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privacy filter in gold or grey check it
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out you can go to 3m calm or you can
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just go to Amazon and you can read the
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hundreds and hundreds of positive
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reviews these things have this is Dave
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Taylor and I need to spin my laptop and
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get back
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to work so see you in my next video
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