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PrivacyScrubber — PII Masking & AI Redaction

by Privacyscrubber.com · privacyscrubber.com · Privacy & Security
Established publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Local AI privacy & PII anonymizer. Mask names, API keys, PDFs & sensitive data in browser RAM before AI chats. Zero server egress.

Users
107
+19 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#81K
#68K among extensions
Version
2.3.9
updated 15 Oct 2026

Users

monthly, 7 months
054107Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 107 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 7 months
024Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 4 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About PrivacyScrubber — PII Masking & AI Redaction

Redact sensitive data, confidential records, and personal identifiable information (PII) before sending prompts to generative AI assistants. PrivacyScrubber automatically masks names, emails, national IDs, medical records, financial figures, API keys, and developer secrets — 100% locally inside your browser's Random Access Memory (RAM). No external servers. No cloud proxies. Zero prompt data ever leaves your device. Your daily prompts often contain sensitive information: client names, customer emails, payroll numbers, patient medical records, or internal API tokens. Pasting unmasked text into third-party AI interfaces exposes confidential data to external servers, cloud logging, and potential training ingestion. PrivacyScrubber intercepts sensitive text directly at the browser input layer, replacing confidential details with safe surrogate tokens (such as [NAME_1], [EMAIL_1]) before submission. When the AI returns its response, click Restore to rehydrate the original values locally in one click. Free to use. No account required. Verified operational offline in Airplane Mode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMPATIBILITY & SUPPORTED INTERFACES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PrivacyScrubber provides an integrated in-page Shield HUD compatible with major web AI chat tools and enterprise web forms: • Web AI Chat Assistants: Direct in-page Shield integration with leading web-based conversational AI assistants. • Enterprise Helpdesk: Direct support for customer support ticketing and composer forms. • Universal Web Popover: Redact text and mask sensitive data on any web page, CRM, or form via keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+X). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NEW IN V2.2.6: LOCAL DOCUMENT SANITIZATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Drag & Drop File Sanitization: Drop PDF, DOCX, and TXT documents directly into supported AI chats. • 100% Client-Side Parsing: Document extraction and PII masking occur entirely inside local browser memory via WebAssembly. • Zero Cloud Upload: Your raw files are never uploaded to any third-party conversion server. • Handles files up to 25MB locally with instant token substitution. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT PRIVACY SCRUBBER REDACTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PrivacyScrubber automatically detects and sanitizes sensitive data entities: • Personal Contact Details: Full names, personal and work emails, international phone numbers, and physical addresses. • Government & National Identification: Social security numbers, tax identification numbers, driver's licenses, and passport credentials across major jurisdictions. • Healthcare & Medical Records: HIPAA Safe Harbor identifiers including medical record numbers (MRN), patient IDs, treatment dates, and clinical notes. • Financial & Payment Information: Credit and debit card numbers (with Luhn validation), bank accounts, IBANs, routing numbers, and compensation figures. • Software Credentials & Secrets: Cloud API keys, authorization tokens, private encryption keys, database connection strings, and administrative credentials. • Legal & Confidential Documents: Attorney-client privilege designations, case codes, settlement amounts, and internal ticket references. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS: 3-STEP ZERO-TRUST WORKFLOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Enter Your Prompt or Drop a File: Type or paste your prompt into any supported AI chat interface, or drag a PDF/DOCX file into the chat box. 2. 1-Click Shield Protection: Click the PrivacyScrubber shield button (or press Alt+Shift+X). Sensitive entities are instantly replaced with surrogate tokens ([NAME_1], [EMAIL_1]). 3. Safe Ingestion & 1-Click Reveal: Submit the sanitized prompt. When the AI responds with surrogate tokens, click Reveal to restore the original cleartext locally in RAM. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPECIALIZED DETECTION RULESETS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In addition to universal personal data masking, PrivacyScrubber includes specialized rulesets tailored for regulated professional workflows: • Clinical & Healthcare: De-identifies patient records and research summaries according to HIPAA Safe Harbor standards. • Financial Services & Accounting: Protects account numbers, audit workpapers, and tax document structures. • Legal & Compliance: Preserves attorney-client privilege in case files and sanitizes commercial contract terms. • Human Resources: Redacts candidate personal data from resumes to support unbiased hiring reviews. • Engineering & DevOps: Detects accidental inclusion of infrastructure keys, system tokens, and server configurations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY CLIENT-SIDE LOCAL PROCESSING (ZTDS™) MATTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Unlike cloud-based security proxies or enterprise DLP gateways that route your confidential data through external third-party servers (introducing network latency and subprocessor compliance risks), PrivacyScrubber operates entirely on your device: • In-Browser RAM Execution: All redaction and unmasking happen inside your local browser memory. • Zero Server Egress: 0 bytes of prompt text or file contents are ever transmitted to PrivacyScrubber or external networks. • Airplane Mode Verified: Disconnect your internet connection and verify that PII masking continues to operate 100% offline. • Tab-Isolated Volatile Memory: Session maps exist only in volatile RAM and are automatically destroyed when the browser tab closes. • Zero Account, Zero Logging: No registration, no login, no tracking cookies, and no prompt storage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION & AUDIT COMPLIANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Cryptographic Team Handoff: Collaborate on sanitized prompts across team members using peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted session tokens (XChaCha20-Poly1305 + Argon2id). • CISO Audit Receipts: Generate downloadable PDF audit certificates with SHA-256 session digests to prove compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 requirements. ━━━━━…

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+2+1.9%00.00
30 days+19+21.6%00.00
6 months+99+1237.5%+30.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where PrivacyScrubber — PII Masking & AI Redaction appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
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Version history

26 versions recorded
2.3.915 Oct 2026
2.3.13 Oct 2026
2.2.71 Oct 2026
2.2.630 Sep 2026
2.0.229 Aug 2026
1.6.816 Jul 2026
1.6.715 Jul 2026
1.6.513 Jul 2026

Details

Category
Privacy & Security
First seen
5 Mar 2026
Size
7.0 MB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
privacyscrubber.com
Support
privacyscrubber.com
Extension ID
pimoejgefeilajmmbpghifdmhdlkgjol

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 3, likelihood 2
Permissions
contextMenusactiveTabclipboardWriteclipboardReadscriptingstoragealarmsoffscreendownloads
Site access
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Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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