Paste Redactor - Clipboard PII Redaction

Tracking since Apr 10, 2026.

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• Jun 2, 2026
  description

  Paste Redactor redacts Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from your clipboard before you paste into any website. THIS WORKS 100% ON YOUR OWN DEVICES. When we copy and paste text across different sites, we sometimes unintentionally share our own or other people's personal data with third parties. Paste Redactor automatically finds PII and replaces it with safe placeholders, saving you from manually reviewing and sanitizing every paste. All text analysis is performed 100% locally on your device using an on-device AI model. We never see what you are redacting or your clipboard contents.
  
  How It Works
  Enable auto-redact and press Ctrl+V, or right-click any text field and select "Redact Paste". Our local AI scans your clipboard, detects sensitive information, and inserts safe placeholders before the text ever reaches the page. The entire process happens on your machine, no internet connection is required for redaction, so your original clipboard contents are never transmitted anywhere.
  
  PII Types
  The application detects and redacts 55 categories of sensitive information such as names, dates of birth, emails, phone numbers, and more. Choose which categories to enable or disable through the extension menu.
  
  Local Processing
  All text analysis is performed locally on your device using an on-device AI model. No clipboard content, telemetry, or usage data is transmitted to any external server. An internet connection is only used to verify premium subscription status or load the upgrade page.
  
  Important Note 
  Paste Redactor is designed to assist with privacy hygiene by automatically redacting common PII patterns. It is a helpful assistant, not a guarantee of complete protection. The AI-based detector is not 100% accurate: it will sometimes miss actual PII and falsely flag non-sensitive text. We will continue to improve the accuracy of our models. Users should always review pasted text before sharing.
  
  Who Needs It
  Legal, healthcare, developers, support teams, HR, educators, and anyone pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, any AIs, emails, chats, or social media who is concerned about how much information they share with third parties.
  
  Free and Premium Tiers
  The free tier includes 100 redactions per month with access to all 55 PII detection types. A Premium upgrade is available for users who need unlimited redactions.
  
  🚨 THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF EXPOSED PII
  Every day, professionals accidentally paste sensitive information into the wrong places:
  • AI Training Data: Content pasted into LLM chatbots may be used for model training.
  • Permanent Records: Slack messages, emails, and support tickets are archived indefinitely.
  • Data Breaches: Exposed credentials, customer data, and financial information become targets.
  • Compliance Violations: GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other regulations carry heavy fines for leaks.
  • Reputation Damage: One screenshot of exposed customer data can destroy trust permanently.
  • Identity Theft: SSN, DOB, and address combinations enable fraud that lasts for years.
  • Corporate Espionage: API keys, cookies, and internal URLs provide attack vectors.
  
  Paste Redactor acts as your additional safety net — catching sensitive data before you paste.
  
  🛠️ COMPLETE FEATURE LIST
  Core Functionality
  • Auto-Redact on Paste: Toggle on and paste normally with Ctrl+V. 
  • Right-Click Redact Paste: Manual option when auto-redact is disabled. 
  • Customizable PII Types: Select exactly which categories to redact.
  • Quick Presets: Essential, Contact, Financial, and All are one-click configurations.
  • Media Paste Passthrough: Images, videos, and audio paste normally without interference.
  
  🗂️ SUPPORTS 55 PII CATEGORIES
  • Personal Identifiers: First/Last Name, DOB, SSN, National ID, Customer ID, Employee ID, Age
  • Contact Info: Email, Phone, Fax, Postcode, Street Address, City, State, Country, County
  • Financial Data: Credit/Debit Cards, CVV, Account Numbers, Bank Routing, SWIFT/BIC, Tax ID
  • Digital Identifiers: Username, Password, API Key, PIN, HTTP Cookie, IPv4/IPv6, MAC, Device ID, URL
  • Organizational: Company Name, Occupation, Employment Status, Education, Medical Record Number, Health Plan ID
  • Date & Time: Dates, Times, Date/Time Combinations
  • Personal Attributes: Gender, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Politics, Blood Type, Biometrics
  • Other: License Plate, Vehicle ID, Coordinates, Language, Certificate/License Numbers
  
  ⚙️ TECHNICAL DETAILS
  • AI Model: MiniLM-L6 fine-tuned for PII detection (open-source weights).
  • Processing: 100% local and offline once installed.
  • Chunking: Smart text chunking with overlap for documents up to 500,000 characters.
  • Storage: Settings stored strictly locally in your browser; no cloud sync.
  
  🔍 Open-Source Models Power Paste Redactor Our PII detection model weights are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
  
  📊 WHAT WE COLLECT
  • All users: An anonymous user ID and browser type sent to our servers solely to check premium subscription status. No clipboard text or redaction data is included.
  • Premium users: Email address and payment information handled by PCI-compliant processors strictly for license authentication and billing.
  
  What We NEVER Collect
  • The text you paste or redact
  • Redaction metadata or counts (stored only on your device)
  • Browsing history or activity
  • Website URLs you visit
  • Screenshots or recordings
  
  ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS
  • AI Limitations: This tool uses machine learning and may occasionally miss PII or falsely flag legitimate text. It is an assistant, not a guarantee.
  • Human Review Required: Always review redacted content before sending. You are ultimately responsible for what you paste.
  • Not Compliance Advice: This tool does not replace professional legal judgment for HIPAA, GDPR, or other regulatory frameworks.
  • Website Compatibility: Some websites with custom paste handlers may interfere with auto-redact. Use the right-click "Redact Paste" option as a reliable fallback.
  
  Paste Redactor should be viewed as a time-saving assistant, not a complete privacy solution. For organizational or production use, we strongly recommend validating the tool on your own data and maintaining appropriate human oversight.
  
  🔐 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
  • Storage: Used only to save your PII preferences and settings locally.
  • Context Menus: Adds the "Redact Paste" option to your right-click menu.
  • All URLs: Required to intercept paste events and insert redacted text into any text field.
  • Offscreen: Required to run multi-threaded ONNX WASM for faster PII redaction on multi-core CPUs when WebGPU is unavailable. Service workers cannot spawn Web Workers, so this hidden document hosts the inference engine.
  
  We never use these permissions to collect data, monitor inputs, or track your browsing.
  
  📅 VERSION HISTORY
  
  v1.1 (29 April 2026)
  • More efficient and accurate PII inference improving speed and accuracy on all devices
  • WebGPU support for significantly faster redaction on compatible browsers with a GPU
  • Multi-threaded CPU fallback for devices without WebGPU/GPU, speeding up redaction on multi-core processors
  • Various bug fixes
  
  v1.0 (March 2026)
  • Initial release with 55 PII type detection
  • Auto-redact and right-click functionality
  • Free tier (100/month) and Premium unlimited
  • Open-source AI model release

  Paste Redactor redacts Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from your clipboard before you paste into any website. THIS WORKS 100% ON YOUR OWN DEVICES. When we copy and paste text across different sites, we sometimes unintentionally share our own or other people's personal data with third parties. Paste Redactor automatically finds PII and replaces it with safe placeholders, saving you from manually reviewing and sanitizing every paste. All text analysis is performed 100% locally on your device using an on-device AI model. We never see what you are redacting or your clipboard contents.
  
  How It Works
  Enable auto-redact and press Ctrl+V, or right-click any text field and select "Redact Paste". Our local AI scans your clipboard, detects sensitive information, and inserts safe placeholders before the text ever reaches the page. The entire process happens on your machine, no internet connection is required for redaction, so your original clipboard contents are never transmitted anywhere.
  
  PII Types
  The application detects and redacts 55 categories of sensitive information such as names, dates of birth, emails, phone numbers, and more. Choose which categories to enable or disable through the extension menu.
  
  Local Processing
  All text analysis is performed locally on your device using an on-device AI model. No clipboard content, telemetry, or usage data is transmitted to any external server. An internet connection is only used to verify premium subscription status or load the upgrade page.
  
  Important Note 
  Paste Redactor is designed to assist with privacy hygiene by automatically redacting common PII patterns. It is a helpful assistant, not a guarantee of complete protection. The AI-based detector is not 100% accurate: it will sometimes miss actual PII and falsely flag non-sensitive text. We will continue to improve the accuracy of our models. Users should always review pasted text before sharing.
  
  Who Needs It
  Legal, healthcare, developers, support teams, HR, educators, and anyone pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, any AIs, emails, chats, or social media who is concerned about how much information they share with third parties.
  
  Free and Premium Tiers
  The free tier includes 100 redactions per month with access to all 55 PII detection types. A Premium upgrade is available for users who need unlimited redactions.
  
  🚨 THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF EXPOSED PII
  Every day, professionals accidentally paste sensitive information into the wrong places:
  • AI Training Data: Content pasted into LLM chatbots may be used for model training.
  • Permanent Records: Slack messages, emails, and support tickets are archived indefinitely.
  • Data Breaches: Exposed credentials, customer data, and financial information become targets.
  • Compliance Violations: GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other regulations carry heavy fines for leaks.
  • Reputation Damage: One screenshot of exposed customer data can destroy trust permanently.
  • Identity Theft: SSN, DOB, and address combinations enable fraud that lasts for years.
  • Corporate Espionage: API keys, cookies, and internal URLs provide attack vectors.
  
  Paste Redactor acts as your additional safety net — catching sensitive data before you paste.
  
  🛠️ COMPLETE FEATURE LIST
  Core Functionality
  • Auto-Redact on Paste: Toggle on and paste normally with Ctrl+V. 
  • Right-Click Redact Paste: Manual option when auto-redact is disabled. 
  • Customizable PII Types: Select exactly which categories to redact.
  • Quick Presets: Essential, Contact, Financial, and All are one-click configurations.
  • Media Paste Passthrough: Images, videos, and audio paste normally without interference.
  
  🗂️ SUPPORTS 55 PII CATEGORIES
  • Personal Identifiers: First/Last Name, DOB, SSN, National ID, Customer ID, Employee ID, Age
  • Contact Info: Email, Phone, Fax, Postcode, Street Address, City, State, Country, County
  • Financial Data: Credit/Debit Cards, CVV, Account Numbers, Bank Routing, SWIFT/BIC, Tax ID
  • Digital Identifiers: Username, Password, API Key, PIN, HTTP Cookie, IPv4/IPv6, MAC, Device ID, URL
  • Organizational: Company Name, Occupation, Employment Status, Education, Medical Record Number, Health Plan ID
  • Date & Time: Dates, Times, Date/Time Combinations
  • Personal Attributes: Gender, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Politics, Blood Type, Biometrics
  • Other: License Plate, Vehicle ID, Coordinates, Language, Certificate/License Numbers
  
  ⚙️ TECHNICAL DETAILS
  • AI Model: MiniLM-L6 fine-tuned for PII detection (open-source weights).
  • Processing: 100% local and offline once installed.
  • Chunking: Smart text chunking with overlap for documents up to 500,000 characters.
  • Storage: Settings stored strictly locally in your browser; no cloud sync.
  
  🔍 Open-Source Models Power Paste Redactor Our PII detection model weights are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
  
  📊 WHAT WE COLLECT
  • All users: An anonymous user ID and browser type sent to our servers solely to check premium subscription status. No clipboard text or redaction data is included.
  • Premium users: Email address and payment information handled by PCI-compliant processors strictly for license authentication and billing.
  
  What We NEVER Collect
  • The text you paste or redact
  • Redaction metadata or counts (stored only on your device)
  • Browsing history or activity
  • Website URLs you visit
  • Screenshots or recordings
  
  ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS
  • AI Limitations: This tool uses machine learning and may occasionally miss PII or falsely flag legitimate text. It is an assistant, not a guarantee.
  • Human Review Required: Always review redacted content before sending. You are ultimately responsible for what you paste.
  • Not Compliance Advice: This tool does not replace professional legal judgment for HIPAA, GDPR, or other regulatory frameworks.
  • Website Compatibility: Some websites with custom paste handlers may interfere with auto-redact. Use the right-click "Redact Paste" option as a reliable fallback.
  
  Paste Redactor should be viewed as a time-saving assistant, not a complete privacy solution. For organizational or production use, we strongly recommend validating the tool on your own data and maintaining appropriate human oversight.
  
  🔐 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
  • Storage: Used only to save your PII preferences and settings locally.
  • Context Menus: Adds the "Redact Paste" option to your right-click menu.
  • All URLs: Required to intercept paste events and insert redacted text into any text field.
  • Offscreen: Required to run multi-threaded ONNX WASM for faster PII redaction on multi-core CPUs when WebGPU is unavailable. Service workers cannot spawn Web Workers, so this hidden document hosts the inference engine.
  
  We never use these permissions to collect data, monitor inputs, or track your browsing.
  
  📅 VERSION HISTORY
  
  v1.3 (28 May 2026)
  - Added redact paste hotkeys (Ctrl/Command + Shift + U by default)
  - Added Regex Pattern Redactor. Add your own custom regex patterns to redact
  - Added custom keywords Redactor. Add your own custom keywords to redact.
  
  v1.2 (29 April 2026)
  • More efficient and accurate PII inference improving speed and accuracy on all devices
  • WebGPU support for significantly faster redaction on compatible browsers with a GPU
  • Multi-threaded CPU fallback for devices without WebGPU/GPU, speeding up redaction on multi-core processors
  • Various bug fixes
  
  v1.0 (March 2026)
  • Initial release with 55 PII type detection
  • Auto-redact and right-click functionality
  • Free tier (100/month) and Premium unlimited
  • Open-source AI model release

• May 3, 2026
  description

  ✨ Paste Redactor automatically spots & redacts Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from your clipboard before you paste, stopping leaks.
  🔒 100% LOCAL PROCESSING: Redaction happens offline in your browser via AI. Text never leaves your device. No servers ever see your content.
  ⚡ HOW IT WORKS: Enable auto-redact & press Ctrl+V, or right-click and select "Redact Paste". Our AI spots PII & inserts safe placeholders.
  ⚠️ Important: AI isn't 100% accurate, mistakes can occur. This tool is designed as a time-saving privacy shield assistant. Always review before sending.
  👥 WHO NEEDS IT: Legal, healthcare, devs, support teams, HR, educators, & anyone pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, emails, chats, social media.
  🛡️ WHY IT MATTERS: Exposed PII lives forever in AI logs, emails, & bug trackers. One accidental paste can cause years of security risks.
  📋 DETECTS 55 PII TYPES: Names, emails, SSN, DOB, addresses, credit cards, bank details, API keys, cookies, IPs, medical records, & more.
  ✅ FREE PLAN: Get 100 redaction pastes per month for free! No credit card needed. Upgrade to Premium (paid) for unlimited uses.
  🔐 PRIVACY FIRST: Zero content transmission. Zero tracking. Zero telemetry. We only collect basic info to authenticate Premium licenses.
  🤝 BUILT ON INTEGRITY: Powered by open-source AI models (MiniLM-L6). Transparent architecture. Regular security updates. Your data stays yours.
  🚀 INSTANT PROTECTION: Install, select PII types, & paste with confidence across Gmail, Slack, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and all websites!
  
  🚨 THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF EXPOSED PII
  Every day, professionals accidentally paste sensitive information into the wrong places:
  • AI Training Data: Content pasted into LLM chatbots may be used for model training.
  • Permanent Records: Slack messages, emails, and support tickets are archived indefinitely.
  • Data Breaches: Exposed credentials, customer data, and financial information become targets.
  • Compliance Violations: GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other regulations carry heavy fines for leaks.
  • Reputation Damage: One screenshot of exposed customer data can destroy trust permanently.
  • Identity Theft: SSN, DOB, and address combinations enable fraud that lasts for years.
  • Corporate Espionage: API keys, cookies, and internal URLs provide attack vectors.
  Paste Redactor acts as your additional safety net—catching sensitive data before you paste text from the clipboard
  
  🛠️ COMPLETE FEATURE LIST
  Core Functionality
  • Auto-Redact on Paste: Toggle on and paste normally with Ctrl+V.
  • Right-Click Redact Paste: Manual option when auto-redact is disabled.
  • Customizable PII Types: Select exactly which categories to redact.
  • Quick Presets: Essential, Contact, Financial, All are one-click configuration.
  • Media Paste Passthrough: Images, videos, and audio paste normally without interference.
  
  🗂️ SUPPORTS 55 PII CATEGORIES. 
  • Personal Identifiers: First/Last Name, DOB, SSN, National ID, Customer ID, Employee ID, Age
  • Contact Info: Email, Phone, Fax, Postcode, Street Address, City, State, Country, County
  • Financial Data: Credit/Debit Cards, CVV, Account Numbers, Bank Routing, SWIFT/BIC, Tax ID
  • Digital Identifiers: Username, Password, API Key, PIN, HTTP Cookie, IPv4/IPv6, MAC, Device ID, URL
  • Organizational: Company Name, Occupation, Employment Status, Education, Medical Record Number, Health Plan ID
  • Date & Time: Dates, Times, Date/Time Combinations
  • Personal Attributes: Gender, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Politics, Blood Type, Biometrics
  • Other: License Plate, Vehicle ID, Coordinates, Language, Certificate/License Numbers
  
  ⚙️ TECHNICAL DETAILS
  • AI Model: MiniLM-L6 fine-tuned for PII detection (Open Source).
  • Processing: 100% Local & Offline (Runs without internet after initial load).
  • Chunking: Smart text chunking with overlap for documents up to 100,000 characters.
  • Storage: Settings stored strictly locally in your browser; no cloud sync.
  
  💎 FREE VS PREMIUM
  Free Plan (Perfect for occasional use)
  • 100 redactions/month
  • All 55 PII types supported
  • Auto-redact & Right-click options
  • Customizable PII selection
  • Local, offline processing
  
  Premium Plan (For power users & professionals)
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Unlimited monthly redactions
  • License valid across up to 10 browser installations
  • Priority support
  
  🔍 Open Source Models Powers Paste Redactor
  Open Source Models: Our PII detection models are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
  
  What We Collect:
  • Free users: Nothing. Zero. No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking.
  • Premium users: Email address and payment info (via PCI-compliant processors) strictly for license authentication.
  
  What We NEVER Collect:
  • The text you paste or redact
  • Redaction metadata or counts
  • Browsing history or activity
  • Website URLs you visit
  • Screenshots or recordings
  
  On Device Processing
  Paste Redactor processes text locally on your own device.
  
  ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS
  • AI Limitations: This tool uses machine learning and may occasionally miss PII or falsely flag legitimate text. It is an assistant, not a guarantee.
  • Human Review Required: Always review redacted content before sending. You are ultimately responsible for what you paste.
  • Not Compliance Advice: This tool does not replace professional legal judgment for HIPAA, GDPR, or other regulatory frameworks.
  • Website Compatibility: Some websites with custom paste handlers may interfere with auto-redact. Use the right-click "Redact Paste" option as a reliable fallback.
  
  Paste Redactor should be viewed as a time-saving assistant, not a complete privacy solution.
  Users should always review content before sharing sensitive information.
  For organizational or production use, we strongly recommend validating the tool on your own data and maintaining appropriate human oversight.
  
  🔐 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
  • Storage: Used only to save your PII preferences and settings locally.
  • Context Menus: Used to add the "Redact Paste" option to your right-click menu.
  • All URLs: Required to intercept paste events and insert redacted text safely into any text field you are using.
  We never use these permissions to collect data, monitor inputs, or track your browsing.
  
  📅 VERSION HISTORY
  v1.0 (March 2026)
  • Initial release with 55 PII type detection
  • Auto-redact and right-click functionality
  • Free tier (100/month) and Premium unlimited
  • Open-source AI model release

  Paste Redactor redacts Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from your clipboard before you paste into any website. THIS WORKS 100% ON YOUR OWN DEVICES. When we copy and paste text across different sites, we sometimes unintentionally share our own or other people's personal data with third parties. Paste Redactor automatically finds PII and replaces it with safe placeholders, saving you from manually reviewing and sanitizing every paste. All text analysis is performed 100% locally on your device using an on-device AI model. We never see what you are redacting or your clipboard contents.
  
  How It Works
  Enable auto-redact and press Ctrl+V, or right-click any text field and select "Redact Paste". Our local AI scans your clipboard, detects sensitive information, and inserts safe placeholders before the text ever reaches the page. The entire process happens on your machine, no internet connection is required for redaction, so your original clipboard contents are never transmitted anywhere.
  
  PII Types
  The application detects and redacts 55 categories of sensitive information such as names, dates of birth, emails, phone numbers, and more. Choose which categories to enable or disable through the extension menu.
  
  Local Processing
  All text analysis is performed locally on your device using an on-device AI model. No clipboard content, telemetry, or usage data is transmitted to any external server. An internet connection is only used to verify premium subscription status or load the upgrade page.
  
  Important Note 
  Paste Redactor is designed to assist with privacy hygiene by automatically redacting common PII patterns. It is a helpful assistant, not a guarantee of complete protection. The AI-based detector is not 100% accurate: it will sometimes miss actual PII and falsely flag non-sensitive text. We will continue to improve the accuracy of our models. Users should always review pasted text before sharing.
  
  Who Needs It
  Legal, healthcare, developers, support teams, HR, educators, and anyone pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, any AIs, emails, chats, or social media who is concerned about how much information they share with third parties.
  
  Free and Premium Tiers
  The free tier includes 100 redactions per month with access to all 55 PII detection types. A Premium upgrade is available for users who need unlimited redactions.
  
  🚨 THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF EXPOSED PII
  Every day, professionals accidentally paste sensitive information into the wrong places:
  • AI Training Data: Content pasted into LLM chatbots may be used for model training.
  • Permanent Records: Slack messages, emails, and support tickets are archived indefinitely.
  • Data Breaches: Exposed credentials, customer data, and financial information become targets.
  • Compliance Violations: GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other regulations carry heavy fines for leaks.
  • Reputation Damage: One screenshot of exposed customer data can destroy trust permanently.
  • Identity Theft: SSN, DOB, and address combinations enable fraud that lasts for years.
  • Corporate Espionage: API keys, cookies, and internal URLs provide attack vectors.
  
  Paste Redactor acts as your additional safety net — catching sensitive data before you paste.
  
  🛠️ COMPLETE FEATURE LIST
  Core Functionality
  • Auto-Redact on Paste: Toggle on and paste normally with Ctrl+V. 
  • Right-Click Redact Paste: Manual option when auto-redact is disabled. 
  • Customizable PII Types: Select exactly which categories to redact.
  • Quick Presets: Essential, Contact, Financial, and All are one-click configurations.
  • Media Paste Passthrough: Images, videos, and audio paste normally without interference.
  
  🗂️ SUPPORTS 55 PII CATEGORIES
  • Personal Identifiers: First/Last Name, DOB, SSN, National ID, Customer ID, Employee ID, Age
  • Contact Info: Email, Phone, Fax, Postcode, Street Address, City, State, Country, County
  • Financial Data: Credit/Debit Cards, CVV, Account Numbers, Bank Routing, SWIFT/BIC, Tax ID
  • Digital Identifiers: Username, Password, API Key, PIN, HTTP Cookie, IPv4/IPv6, MAC, Device ID, URL
  • Organizational: Company Name, Occupation, Employment Status, Education, Medical Record Number, Health Plan ID
  • Date & Time: Dates, Times, Date/Time Combinations
  • Personal Attributes: Gender, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Politics, Blood Type, Biometrics
  • Other: License Plate, Vehicle ID, Coordinates, Language, Certificate/License Numbers
  
  ⚙️ TECHNICAL DETAILS
  • AI Model: MiniLM-L6 fine-tuned for PII detection (open-source weights).
  • Processing: 100% local and offline once installed.
  • Chunking: Smart text chunking with overlap for documents up to 500,000 characters.
  • Storage: Settings stored strictly locally in your browser; no cloud sync.
  
  🔍 Open-Source Models Power Paste Redactor Our PII detection model weights are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
  
  📊 WHAT WE COLLECT
  • All users: An anonymous user ID and browser type sent to our servers solely to check premium subscription status. No clipboard text or redaction data is included.
  • Premium users: Email address and payment information handled by PCI-compliant processors strictly for license authentication and billing.
  
  What We NEVER Collect
  • The text you paste or redact
  • Redaction metadata or counts (stored only on your device)
  • Browsing history or activity
  • Website URLs you visit
  • Screenshots or recordings
  
  ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS
  • AI Limitations: This tool uses machine learning and may occasionally miss PII or falsely flag legitimate text. It is an assistant, not a guarantee.
  • Human Review Required: Always review redacted content before sending. You are ultimately responsible for what you paste.
  • Not Compliance Advice: This tool does not replace professional legal judgment for HIPAA, GDPR, or other regulatory frameworks.
  • Website Compatibility: Some websites with custom paste handlers may interfere with auto-redact. Use the right-click "Redact Paste" option as a reliable fallback.
  
  Paste Redactor should be viewed as a time-saving assistant, not a complete privacy solution. For organizational or production use, we strongly recommend validating the tool on your own data and maintaining appropriate human oversight.
  
  🔐 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
  • Storage: Used only to save your PII preferences and settings locally.
  • Context Menus: Adds the "Redact Paste" option to your right-click menu.
  • All URLs: Required to intercept paste events and insert redacted text into any text field.
  • Offscreen: Required to run multi-threaded ONNX WASM for faster PII redaction on multi-core CPUs when WebGPU is unavailable. Service workers cannot spawn Web Workers, so this hidden document hosts the inference engine.
  
  We never use these permissions to collect data, monitor inputs, or track your browsing.
  
  📅 VERSION HISTORY
  
  v1.1 (29 April 2026)
  • More efficient and accurate PII inference improving speed and accuracy on all devices
  • WebGPU support for significantly faster redaction on compatible browsers with a GPU
  • Multi-threaded CPU fallback for devices without WebGPU/GPU, speeding up redaction on multi-core processors
  • Various bug fixes
  
  v1.0 (March 2026)
  • Initial release with 55 PII type detection
  • Auto-redact and right-click functionality
  • Free tier (100/month) and Premium unlimited
  • Open-source AI model release

• May 3, 2026
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