Show HN: On-device Chrome extension that blocks credential leaks to LLM chats
A new Chrome extension called Redact aims to prevent credential leaks to AI chat platforms. It intercepts pastes in real-time, scanning for sensitive information like credentials and PII before they are sent. The extension operates locally in the browser, ensuring privacy and no data is sent to external servers.
- ▪Redact catches credentials and PII before they reach AI chat platforms like ChatGPT and Claude.
- ▪The extension runs locally in the browser and does not make any network calls.
- ▪Users can choose to block or warn about sensitive data before it is pasted into chats.
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Stop leaking secrets to AI. Redact catches credentials and PII before they reach ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more. Runs in your browser. Add to Chrome Built for the chats you actually use ChatGPT Claude Copilot Perplexity Grok Mistral DeepSeek Poe ChatGPT Claude Copilot Perplexity Grok Mistral DeepSeek Poe The paste box is a credential leak waiting to happen. Chat transcripts sit on the provider's servers. You can't take it back. Three steps. Every paste. Redact intercepts pastes on supported chat sites. Detection runs in your browser. 01 Detect A local neural network scans each paste for credentials and PII. Inference runs in about 150 milliseconds. 02 Decide Set Block or Warn per data type from the popup. Defaults are tuned for engineers.
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