Toolshed

A growing library of browser tools and deep technical guides for IT professionals.

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Privacy

Short version: this site doesn't collect anything itself. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics script, no tracking pixels, no forms that submit data anywhere.

The tools on this site

Almost every tool here — the JSON formatter, cron explainer, regex tester, MAC address lookup, and most others — runs entirely in your browser using plain JavaScript. Whatever you paste or type into them stays on your device — it is not sent to this site, logged, or stored anywhere. You can verify this yourself: open your browser's network tab while using any of these tools and confirm nothing is transmitted when you click the buttons.

Two exceptions, both of which say so directly on their own page: - The Website Screenshot tool sends the URL you enter to thum.io, a third-party screenshot rendering service — generating a screenshot means something has to actually visit the page, which can't happen purely on your device. - The IOC Lookup tool sends whatever you enter to this site's own server, which queries VirusTotal and AbuseIPDB on your behalf — those services' APIs require a secret key that can't be exposed in browser code, so this one genuinely can't run client-side the way the rest of the tools do.

Every other tool on this site does not send anything anywhere.

What the hosting provider sees

This site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare's infrastructure necessarily processes standard connection information (IP address, request timing) to deliver pages and to protect the site from abuse — this is normal for any website on the internet and isn't something this site configures or has access to itself. See Cloudflare's own privacy policy for details on how they handle that.

If this changes

If ads, analytics, or any data collection is added in the future, this page will be updated first to disclose exactly what's collected and why, before anything goes live.