How PrivateBrowserTools handles your data
Private files stay in your browser. Website Autopsy is different: it sends the public URL you enter to our server so the server can fetch that one webpage.
What we do not do
- We do not upload your files to a server for Metadata Autopsy or the file utility tools.
- We do not log pasted text or file contents.
- We do not store processed files after the browser session ends.
- We do not send filenames to analytics.
- We do not send Website Autopsy URLs or domains to analytics.
What Website Autopsy sends
- The public URL you enter is sent to the Website Autopsy endpoint on this site.
- The server requests that page once, without cookies or credentials, and does not crawl its links or load its assets.
- The target website sees a request from our server and the identifying Website Autopsy user-agent.
- The fetched HTML is parsed in memory into structured evidence and is not returned as executable markup.
- A short rate-limit record derived from the connection address may be kept in temporary server storage to prevent abuse.
What your browser does
- Reads files from your device only after you choose them.
- Processes JSON, CSV, YAML, and image operations locally.
- Creates downloadable files in memory using Blob URLs.
- May store optional local preferences only when you explicitly enable them in future updates.
Limitations
Very large files depend on your device memory and browser capabilities. Website Autopsy accepts public HTTP/HTTPS pages only and may be unable to inspect pages that block automated requests, require login, require JavaScript rendering, or exceed its response and time limits.