Overview

Pagecrumb is a Chrome extension that turns the page you are looking at into clean Markdown, a YouTube transcript or a readable web article, so you can copy it to your clipboard or open it in MarkV, a Markdown viewer made by the same developer.

Pagecrumb has no account, no server, no database, and no analytics. It does not track you, and it does not sell or share your data with anyone.

What Pagecrumb accesses, and when

Pagecrumb only reads page content after you ask it to, by clicking the toolbar button, the on-page Pagecrumb button on YouTube, or a menu item. Nothing runs in the background and nothing is read until you act.

When you trigger an action, Pagecrumb reads the content of the current tab:

• the article text of the web page you are on, or
• the transcript/caption data and title of the YouTube video you are watching.

All of this is processed locally, inside your browser. Pagecrumb does not send this content to any Pagecrumb-operated server, because there is no such server.

What Pagecrumb does with that content

• Copy: the generated Markdown is written to your clipboard. That's it, it stays on your device.
• Send to MarkV: when you choose this, Pagecrumb places the generated Markdown into the URL fragment of a https://tinycrafts.ai/markv/ link and opens it in a new tab. The content lives in the part of the URL after the #, which browsers do not transmit to the web server. MarkV reads it directly in your browser and renders it locally. For very large documents, Pagecrumb may instead hand the Markdown to that MarkV tab via a browser postMessage, still entirely within your browser and scoped to https://tinycrafts.ai.

MarkV is operated by the same developer as Pagecrumb. It does not require an account and stores documents locally in your browser. See MarkV's own page for its details.

What Pagecrumb does not do

• It does not collect, store, or transmit your data to a Pagecrumb server.
• It does not use cookies, analytics, telemetry, or any tracking.
• It does not sell or share your data with third parties.
• It does not load or execute any remote code.

Permissions

• activeTab lets Pagecrumb read the current tab's content only after you click the extension, so it can build the Markdown.
• scripting lets Pagecrumb run its local extraction code, and the bundled Defuddle library, in the current tab to pull out the readable content.
• https://www.youtube.com/* lets Pagecrumb add its transcript buttons on YouTube and read the transcript of the video you are watching.

YouTube

When you copy a YouTube transcript, Pagecrumb requests the caption data for the current video directly from YouTube, from within the YouTube page you are already on, the same way the page itself would. No transcript data is sent anywhere else.

Children's privacy

Pagecrumb is a general-purpose utility, does not collect any personal information, and is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change. Material changes will be reflected in the extension's Chrome Web Store listing.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@tinycrafts.ai