Web Technology Inspector Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 17, 2026

Web Technology Inspector is a local-only Chrome extension. It does not use analytics, telemetry, advertising, or third-party services.

Information the extension accesses

To inspect the active page, the extension accesses browser-provided metadata, including:

• Request URLs, request types, response headers, and IP address families.
• The active page hostname and navigation and frame lifecycle information.
• The presence of selected HTML metadata names and link relations, without reading or storing metadata contents.
• The presence of selected JavaScript globals and browser-platform API usage names, without storing their values or arguments.
• Page timing, service worker state, HTML5 video playback metrics, and active WebGL or WebGPU renderer information.
• Cookie records applicable to the active page, only to count them.

The extension does not inspect page payloads or application data. Cookie values, raw request URLs, response headers, and IP addresses are not stored or displayed.

How information is used

Accessed information is used only to calculate and display diagnostic results in the extension popup. Derived per-tab results may be held in Chrome session storage while the browser session is active.

The extension does not send this information to the developer or any other service, and it does not make outbound network requests.

Permissions

• webRequest and <all_urls> observe network metadata for arbitrary HTTP and HTTPS pages and their WebSocket connections.
• webNavigation associates observations with the correct document and frame.
• storage temporarily stores per-tab diagnostic snapshots.
• cookies counts cookies applicable to the active page.

Data sharing and remote code

Web Technology Inspector does not sell, share, or transmit collected information. It does not execute remote code; all extension logic is included in the published package.

Changes and questions

This policy will be kept consistent with the published extension. Questions can be submitted through the support channel listed on the Chrome Web Store listing.