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What happens to your bookmarks

Short version: nothing leaves your browser, and there's nowhere for it to go even if it tried.

Your bookmark file

When you drop a file into any tool on this site, your browser reads it into memory on your own machine using the standard file APIs. The parsing, the analysis and the generating of any file you download all happen there. This site has no upload endpoint, no database and no server-side code that could receive a bookmark file. Reloading the page discards everything.

You can verify this rather than take our word for it: open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use any tool here. Apart from the page's own stylesheet and script, you'll see no requests at all — except on the dead link checker, described next.

The one exception: the dead link checker

Checking whether a site still exists means asking it. When you press Check domains on the dead link checker, your browser sends a request to the home page of each domain that appears in your file:

  • the requests go from your browser directly to those sites — they don't pass through this site
  • they carry no cookies (credentials are explicitly omitted) and no information about which page of theirs you had bookmarked
  • those sites will see a hit from your IP address, exactly as if you'd visited their home page
  • nothing is sent back here, and no list of your domains is retained anywhere

Nothing happens until you press the button, and the tool says so on the page before you do. If you'd rather not make those requests at all, every other tool works with your network disconnected.

The site itself

Pages are static files. There are no accounts, no logins and no comment system, so there's nothing to store about you. The site sets no cookies of its own.

The stylesheet, the script and the fonts are all served from this domain — no CDN, no font service, no third-party embeds on the tool pages. Requests to hosting infrastructure produce ordinary server logs (IP address, page requested, user agent) as any website does.

Publisher's note — delete this box before launch. If you add analytics, advertising or an email list, this section must be updated to name them, describe the cookies they set, and link to their policies. Regional rules (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA) may also require a consent banner for advertising cookies. Have a lawyer look over the final text; this page is a starting draft, not legal advice.

Outbound links

Links to other sites — including affiliate links in The File — take you to companies with their own privacy practices. Once you leave, this policy stops applying. See the affiliate disclosure for how those links work.

Questions

[email protected]. Please don't attach your bookmarks file.

Last updated 28 July 2026.