Privacy policy
Last updated: 2026-10-12. Short version: Copystate processes the page you invoke it on locally, in your browser, and sends nothing anywhere.
What Copystate reads
Only when you click its toolbar icon or press its shortcut, and only in the tab you are looking at, Copystate reads:
- the page title and address (URL),
- the visible text, headings, tables and links of the page,
- form fields with their current values, including what you typed, and the options of dropdowns.
This can include personal information shown on or entered into the page, for example your name, address or account
details. Form fields for passwords, card numbers, IBANs, one-time codes and access tokens are replaced with
[redacted], as are user names, passwords and token parameters inside URLs. Text that the page merely
displays is not redacted.
When you click Open dropdowns, Copystate opens each dropdown briefly. The page reacts as it would to your own click and may, for example, load the options from its own server. Copystate itself sends nothing.
What happens with it
- The Markdown is shown in the extension's popup. It is put on your clipboard only when you click Copy or press Enter.
- No page content is stored. When the popup closes, the text is gone, unless you copied it.
- Nothing is transmitted. The extension contains no code that sends data, and its content security policy blocks network connections from its popup.
- No analytics, no tracking, no account, no remote code.
What you do with the copied text, for example pasting it into an AI service, is up to you and subject to that service's privacy policy.
What Copystate stores
One setting: whether you last chose Main content or Whole page. It stays in your browser's local storage for the extension and is never sent anywhere.
Permissions
activeTab | Read the current tab, only after you invoke the extension. |
|---|---|
scripting | Run the reading code in that tab. |
Copystate does not ask for access to all websites and cannot read any tab in the background.
This website
This website is hosted on GitHub Pages. To deliver it, GitHub processes technical data such as your IP address; see the GitHub General Privacy Statement. The site sets no cookies and uses no analytics. Issues you open on GitHub are public.
Contact
Responsible for Copystate and this website: mrvnklm on GitHub. Bug reports and general questions: GitHub issues. Copystate never receives data from you, so nothing about you is stored that could be accessed, corrected or deleted. Changes to this policy are published on this page and in the source repository.