diff --git a/src/main/filter-listeners.ts b/src/main/filter-listeners.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2931ebad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/filter-listeners.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import type { EventEmitter } from 'events';
+
+type Listener = (...args: unknown[]) => void;
+type WrappedListener = Listener & { listener: Listener };
+type AddMethod = 'on' | 'addListener' | 'prependListener' | 'once' | 'prependOnceListener';
+
+/**
+ * Hides messages that `shouldHide` matches from every listener added to
+ * `emitter` for `eventName`.
+ *
+ * Each wrapper carries a `listener` property that points at the caller's
+ * function. Node's `removeListener` and `listeners()` look through that
+ * property, so `off` and `listeners()` behave as on a plain emitter.
+ * `once` is handled here rather than left to Node, because Node's `once`
+ * calls `on` and its own wrapper would then be wrapped a second time.
+ */
+export function hideMatchingMessages(
+  emitter: EventEmitter,
+  eventName: string,
+  shouldHide: (message: unknown) => boolean,
+): void {
+  const originalOn = emitter.on.bind(emitter);
+  const originalPrepend = emitter.prependListener.bind(emitter);
+
+  function wrap(listener: Listener, once: boolean): WrappedListener {
+    const wrapper = function (this: unknown, ...args: unknown[]): void {
+      if (shouldHide(args[0])) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (once) {
+        emitter.removeListener(eventName, wrapper);
+      }
+
+      listener.apply(this, args);
+    } as WrappedListener;
+
+    wrapper.listener = listener;
+    return wrapper;
+  }
+
+  function install(method: AddMethod, register: EventEmitter['on'], once: boolean): void {
+    const existing = emitter[method].bind(emitter);
+
+    emitter[method] = (name: string | symbol, listener: Listener): EventEmitter => {
+      if (name !== eventName) {
+        return existing(name, listener);
+      }
+
+      return register(name, wrap(listener, once));
+    };
+  }
+
+  install('on', originalOn, false);
+  install('addListener', originalOn, false);
+  install('prependListener', originalPrepend, false);
+  install('once', originalOn, true);
+  install('prependOnceListener', originalPrepend, true);
+}
diff --git a/src/main/utility-processes.ts b/src/main/utility-processes.ts
index e3cb9bc5..2d6f1869 100644
--- a/src/main/utility-processes.ts
+++ b/src/main/utility-processes.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { captureEvent, getClient } from '@sentry/node';
 import * as electron from 'electron';
 import { eventFromEnvelope } from '../common/envelope.js';
 import { getMagicMessage, isMagicMessage } from '../common/ipc.js';
+import { hideMatchingMessages } from './filter-listeners.js';
 import { applyProcessAttributes, normalizeDynamicSamplingContext } from './ipc.js';
 import { mergeEvents } from './merge.js';
 import { normalizeSpanStreamingEnvelope } from './normalize.js';
@@ -61,28 +62,8 @@ export function configureUtilityProcessIPC(): void {
         }
       });
 
-      // We proxy child.on so we can filter messages from the child SDK and ensure that users do not see them
-      // eslint-disable-next-line typescript/unbound-method
-      child.on = new Proxy(child.on, {
-        apply: (target, thisArg, args: [string, (message: unknown) => unknown]) => {
-          const [event, listener] = args;
-
-          if (event === 'message') {
-            return Reflect.apply(target, thisArg, [
-              event,
-              (msg: unknown) => {
-                if (isMagicMessage(msg)) {
-                  return;
-                }
-
-                return listener(msg);
-              },
-            ]);
-          }
-
-          return Reflect.apply(target, thisArg, args);
-        },
-      });
+      // Users must not see the messages the child SDK sends us
+      hideMatchingMessages(child, 'message', isMagicMessage);
 
       return child;
     },
diff --git a/test/unit/filter-listeners.test.ts b/test/unit/filter-listeners.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7237aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/filter-listeners.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, test, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { hideMatchingMessages } from '../../src/main/filter-listeners';
+
+const HIDDEN = { hidden: true };
+const isHidden = (message: unknown): boolean => message === HIDDEN;
+
+describe('hideMatchingMessages', () => {
+  let emitter: EventEmitter;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    emitter = new EventEmitter();
+    hideMatchingMessages(emitter, 'message', isHidden);
+  });
+
+  test('off removes a listener added with on', () => {
+    const before = emitter.listenerCount('message');
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+      const listener = (): void => undefined;
+      emitter.on('message', listener);
+      emitter.off('message', listener);
+    }
+
+    expect(emitter.listenerCount('message')).toBe(before);
+  });
+
+  test.each(['on', 'addListener', 'prependListener', 'once', 'prependOnceListener'] as const)(
+    '%s hides matching messages and passes the rest through',
+    (method) => {
+      const listener = vi.fn();
+      emitter[method]('message', listener);
+
+      emitter.emit('message', HIDDEN);
+      expect(listener).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+      emitter.emit('message', 'visible');
+      expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledWith('visible');
+    },
+  );
+
+  test('listeners are called with the emitter as this', () => {
+    const listener = vi.fn(function (this: unknown) {
+      expect(this).toBe(emitter);
+    });
+    emitter.on('message', listener);
+
+    emitter.emit('message', 'visible');
+    expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  test('once fires once and removes itself', () => {
+    const listener = vi.fn();
+    emitter.once('message', listener);
+
+    emitter.emit('message', 'first');
+    emitter.emit('message', 'second');
+
+    expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledWith('first');
+    expect(emitter.listenerCount('message')).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  test('a hidden message does not consume a once listener', () => {
+    const listener = vi.fn();
+    emitter.once('message', listener);
+
+    emitter.emit('message', HIDDEN);
+    expect(emitter.listenerCount('message')).toBe(1);
+
+    emitter.emit('message', 'visible');
+    expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledWith('visible');
+  });
+
+  test('off removes a pending once listener', () => {
+    const listener = vi.fn();
+    emitter.once('message', listener);
+    emitter.off('message', listener);
+
+    emitter.emit('message', 'visible');
+    expect(listener).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(emitter.listenerCount('message')).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  test('prependListener runs before earlier listeners', () => {
+    const order: string[] = [];
+    emitter.on('message', () => order.push('first'));
+    emitter.prependListener('message', () => order.push('prepended'));
+
+    emitter.emit('message', 'visible');
+    expect(order).toEqual(['prepended', 'first']);
+  });
+
+  test('listeners() returns the original functions', () => {
+    const a = (): void => undefined;
+    const b = (): void => undefined;
+    emitter.on('message', a);
+    emitter.once('message', b);
+
+    expect(emitter.listeners('message')).toEqual([a, b]);
+  });
+
+  test('other events are untouched', () => {
+    const listener = vi.fn();
+    emitter.on('exit', listener);
+    emitter.once('exit', listener);
+
+    emitter.emit('exit', HIDDEN);
+    expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(listener).toHaveBeenCalledWith(HIDDEN);
+
+    emitter.off('exit', listener);
+    expect(emitter.listenerCount('exit')).toBe(0);
+  });
+});