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Reading a privacy badge on Omnipus

What “Runs on your device”, “Fetches a public URL”, and “Uses a public rates API” mean in practice. · 6 min read · by Ruben Rocha

Runs on your device

The tool reads your file or text in the browser. Processing uses Canvas, WebAssembly, Web Audio, or similar on-device APIs. Omnipus does not receive the file contents as an upload for storage. That is the mode you want for PDFs, image edits, and most text utilities.

The page itself still loads from our servers. Fonts, scripts, and ads (when enabled) behave like on other sites — see the privacy policy. Local processing is about your document bytes, not about inventing a network-free universe.

Fetches a public URL

You paste a link. Infrastructure retrieves that public resource so the browser can list or save media. We do not keep a media archive of your downloads. Only paste URLs you have the right to access. Private or login-walled posts will fail, and that is expected.

Because the fetch runs on our server, these tools are rate-limited per IP address to prevent abuse, and the server keeps only a short-lived in-memory counter, not your link or the media.

Uses a public rates API

Calculators like currency conversion need fresh numbers. The tool queries a public reference API. Your amount is not turned into a user profile on Omnipus. That is different from uploading a spreadsheet to be stored in an account.

If a badge ever confuses you, open About or Contact and ask. Clear labeling is part of the product, not decoration — especially after search engines and ad networks started cracking down on copy-paste tool spam that lied about privacy.

If you are comparing Omnipus to another toolkit, ignore slogans and check behavior: does the network tab show your file uploading when you click convert? For local tools it should not. For URL-fetch tools you should see a request for the public link you pasted. That simple check beats any marketing claim.

Why badges exist

Search engines and ad networks have spent years cleaning up cloned tool spam that lied about privacy. Honest badges protect users and keep Omnipus in the index for pages that deserve to rank. If a badge ever looks wrong for a tool you are using, report it via the feedback form with the tool slug — labeling bugs are treated as product bugs.

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