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		ryanianian on Aug 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Handpicked No-Signup Tools > browser is very well sandboxed and security hardened. But the back-end of a browser-only tool may not be. And it may not be online the next time you go to use it. Or it may lose or sell your data.

Retr0id on Aug 16, 2022 [–]

Sure, there's a confidentiality issue with whatever data you upload, but there's low risk of the rest of the data on your system being compromised.

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