Last updated: July 12, 2026
Clickable is a Chrome extension that scans images, video frames, screen regions, and other on-screen content for QR codes and text URLs, so you can open a link you can see but couldn't otherwise click. This policy explains exactly what data Clickable touches, why, and — most importantly — what it never does with it.
The short version
Clickable processes everything locally, on your device, inside your browser. No pixel, image, scanned text, or URL is ever transmitted to Clickable's developer, to any analytics service, or to any third party. There are no ads, no telemetry, and no account or sign-in. The only network requests Clickable ever makes are ones you initiate by clicking "Open" on a link it found, or by clicking the optional "Buy Me a Coffee" link in Settings.
What Clickable accesses, and why
| Permission | Why Clickable needs it |
|---|---|
activeTab |
Lets a scan you trigger (hotkey, toolbar button, or right-click) read pixels from the page you're currently on — only for that single action, not persistent access. |
scripting |
Injects the scanning code into the page for that single triggered action (finding a video/image, drawing it to a canvas, decoding it). |
contextMenus |
Adds the "Scan image for links" option to the right-click menu on images. |
storage |
Saves your settings (e.g. whether OCR is on) and the current scan result, locally in your browser. |
unlimitedStorage |
Lets your scan history — which includes small preview images — be saved locally without hitting the browser's default storage cap. This does not grant access to anything beyond the extension's own local storage. |
offscreen |
Runs the local OCR engines (Tesseract.js and a local neural model) in a hidden background page, since browser extensions can't run this kind of processing directly in their main background script. |
Clickable requests no host permissions (it cannot read arbitrary websites in the background) and uses no remote code — every script, model, and library it runs is bundled inside the extension itself and loaded locally; nothing is fetched from the internet at scan time.
What happens during a scan
When you trigger a scan (by hotkey, toolbar button, right-click, or by choosing a screen/window to share for the "Scan another app" feature), Clickable:
- Captures the relevant pixels (an image, a video frame, a screen region, or a shared window/screen) only for that single action, using Chrome's own tab-capture or screen-capture APIs, both of which require your explicit action to trigger.
- Decodes those pixels on your device using a bundled QR decoder (jsQR) and, optionally, local OCR engines (Tesseract.js and a local neural text-recognition model) to find QR codes and text URLs.
- Discards the captured image after processing, except for what's described below under "What's stored."
None of this pixel data, nor the text/URLs found in it, is sent anywhere over the network as part of scanning. You can verify this yourself: open Chrome's DevTools Network tab during a scan and you'll see no outbound requests.
What's stored, and where
- Scan history (optional, on by default): Clickable saves your recent scans — including a preview image, any links found, and OCR text read — in your browser's local extension storage (
chrome.storage.local) andchrome.storage.session. This data never leaves your device and is not accessible to Clickable's developer, to websites you visit, or to any other extension. You can delete individual scans, clear all history, or adjust how many scans are kept, from the extension's Settings and History tabs at any time. - Settings: your preferences (OCR on/off, history length, etc.) are stored the same way — locally, never transmitted.
- You can clear everything at once using "Reset all Clickable data" in Settings.
Third-party services
Clickable does not use any third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking services. It does not share data with any third party because it does not transmit your data anywhere in the first place.
The one exception: Settings includes an optional "Buy Me a Coffee" link. It is a plain hyperlink — clicking it opens buymeacoffee.com in a new tab. No information about you or your usage of Clickable is sent to that site or to its developer as part of that link; whatever happens on buymeacoffee.com after you click is governed by their own privacy policy, not this one.
Children's privacy
Clickable is a general-purpose utility not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age, since it does not collect information at all in the sense of transmitting it anywhere.
Changes to this policy
If Clickable's data practices ever change, this policy will be updated accordingly and the "Last updated" date above will reflect that.
Contact
Questions about this policy or Clickable's data practices can be sent to: machvelli.dev@gmail.com