Privacy Policy
Effective June 11, 2026
Pluck is a browser extension that copies a CSS selector (and optional context) for an element you click. This policy explains, completely, what Pluck does with data — which is easy, because the answer is: nothing leaves your machine.
What Pluck collects
Nothing. Pluck has no servers, makes no network requests, and contains no analytics, telemetry, error reporting, or tracking of any kind. There is no account, no sign-in, and no identifier.
What Pluck stores — locally, on your device
Pluck uses the browser's chrome.storage.local API (data that stays inside your browser profile) for exactly three things:
- Your copy-format preference — selector, context, or full.
- Your custom keyboard shortcut, if you changed it from the default.
- Your last 10 captures— the selector, a short text/HTML snippet of the element you clicked, and the page URL it came from — so the popup can show “Recent” and let you re-copy. Clear it any time with the popup's Clearbutton; it's deleted automatically when you uninstall.
This data is never transmitted anywhere. It is readable only by Pluck inside your browser.
What Pluck reads
When — and only when — you activate inspect mode (keyboard shortcut or toolbar button) and click an element, Pluck reads that element's tag, attributes, classes, a truncated snippet of its text, and (in Full mode) a few of its computed styles, in order to build the string it puts on your clipboard. Pluck does not read pages in the background, does not scan page content on load, and does not observe your browsing.
Why Pluck asks for broad host access
The extension requests host_permissions: <all_urls> so its content script (which contains the keyboard-shortcut listener) can be present on every page. That is what makes the hotkey fire reliably on the first press on any site. The scripting permission is used only as a fallback to inject into tabs that were already open before you installed Pluck. The storage permission stores the three items listed above. None of these are used to collect or transmit data.
Clipboard
Pluck writes to your clipboard when you capture an element, and when you click an entry in the popup history. It never reads your clipboard.
Children's privacy, data sales, third parties
Pluck collects no data from anyone, sells no data, and shares no data — there is nothing to sell or share.
Changes to this policy
If Pluck's behavior ever changes in a way that affects this policy, the new policy ships with the extension update, with the change noted in the changelog. Given the project's design rule — no network, nothing leaves the machine — substantive change is not expected.
Contact
Questions: developer@william-laverty.com, or open an issue on GitHub.