The short version

All analysis runs locally in your browser. The only network request is the crawler's re-fetch of the page you're viewing. No tracking, no analytics, no data leaves your machine.

What we collect

Nothing. Bot Lens has no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, and no servers that receive your data. We don't know who you are or what pages you look at.

What happens on your device

Bot Lens reads the page you're on and works out how a crawler or answer engine would read it. All of that happens in your browser. Your settings — the active lens and the token budget — are saved with the browser's built-in storage and never leave your device.

The network requests it makes

Bot Lens only talks to the site you're already viewing. Specifically, it may:

• Re-fetch the current page's raw HTML to build the no-JavaScript crawler view.
• Fetch that site's robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt.
• Optionally re-fetch the current page while identifying as a named bot (for example Googlebot or GPTBot) when you use "view as bot".

All of these go directly to the website you're viewing — never to us.

Permissions, and why

Bot Lens asks for as little as possible:

• Storage — to remember your settings (active lens, token budget).
• Network-request rules for the sites you visit — used only to set a temporary bot User-Agent header for the "view as bot" feature.
• Access to the page you're on — to fetch its HTML and its robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt so the lenses can analyze them.

It does not use the debugger or tabs permissions, and it never reads your browsing history.

Third parties

None. Bot Lens uses no third-party services, ad networks, or trackers.

Changes to this policy

If anything here changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Material changes will be reflected before a new version ships.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected].