Debullshitify is a Chrome extension that highlights confusing work messages and tells you what they're actually asking for. This page explains, plainly, what data the extension touches and what happens to it.
Text you highlight. When you select text on a webpage and the extension is turned on, that text is sent to our server to be analyzed. This only happens when you actively highlight something — the extension does not read, scan, or transmit anything on a page automatically or in the background.
Feedback votes. If you tap 👍 or 👎 on a result, we log that vote along with a short snippet (up to 300 characters) of the text that was analyzed, so we can see what's working and what isn't.
Anonymous usage events. The extension generates a random ID on install — not tied to your name, email, or anything identifying — and uses it to record two events: when you use the tool for the first time, and each time after that. This tells us whether people find Debullshitify useful enough to come back to, which is the one metric that actually matters for deciding whether to keep building it. We want to know whether you're using Debullshitify, not what you're reading — these events carry no highlighted text, no page URLs, and no IP address.
We do not collect your name, email address, browsing history, or any information beyond what's described above, unless you choose to submit it voluntarily through our feedback form.
Highlighted text is sent to our backend server, which forwards it to a third-party AI provider (currently Google's Gemini API) solely to generate the analysis. The result is returned to you and is not stored on our server afterward.
Feedback votes and their associated text snippets are stored in a private Google Sheet that only the developer can access, used to improve the tool's accuracy and behavior over time.
Anonymous usage events are sent to PostHog, a product analytics service, purely to see usage patterns like return visits over time. No highlighted text or personal information is included in these events.
We use the following third-party services:
Debullshitify requests permission to run on all websites (<all_urls>). This is necessary because the tool needs to work wherever you might encounter a confusing message — email, Slack, documents, or any other site — not just a fixed list of domains. The extension only acts when you deliberately highlight text; it does not passively monitor or collect anything from pages you visit.
You can turn the extension off at any time from its toolbar icon. When off, highlighting text does nothing, and no data — including usage events — is sent anywhere.
You can also remove the extension entirely at any time from chrome://extensions, which stops all data collection immediately.
Highlighted text itself is not stored after analysis — it passes through our server and is discarded. Feedback vote snippets are retained until we manually delete them; if you'd like a specific entry removed, contact us using the email below.
Questions, concerns, or data deletion requests can be sent to malhar.sangamnerkar379@gmail.com.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new effective date.