---
title: "Built a browser extension to keep your secrets safe!"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/built-a-browser-extension-to-keep-your-secrets-safe--xr7sbprlq
source_url: https://daily.dev/posts/built-a-browser-extension-to-keep-your-secrets-safe--xr7sbprlq
type: freeform
source: "The Dev Craft"
author: "Vedant Singhal"
published: 2025-06-19T02:02:24.229Z
updated: 2026-03-15T05:21:06.298Z
tags: ["devtools", "google-chrome", "open-source", "privacy", "security"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 12
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Built a browser extension to keep your secrets safe!

**[The Dev Craft](https://daily.dev/sources/thedevcraft)** · [@vedved](https://daily.dev/vedved) · 1 min read · 12 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

Hide Secrets is an open-source browser extension that automatically detects and masks sensitive information like API keys, tokens, emails, phone numbers, and credit cards on webpages by blurring or replacing them with [REDACTED]. The extension helps protect personally identifiable information and high-entropy secrets when sharing screens or taking screenshots, and is available on the Chrome Web Store with source code publicly available on GitHub.

## Content

Hide secrets is a browser extension that well... _"automatically detects and masks high-entropy secrets and personally identifiable information in webpages— Tokens, API keys, emails, phone numbers, credit cards and any other high-entropy strings—by blurring or replacing them with [REDACTED]"_

It is even open sourced so you can be certain that no data is being logged! 

https://github.com/Ved235/hide-secrets _(do star the repo if you liked it)_

Try it out from the chrome web store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ldenkldeajffnnopcglkejofffefohio?utm_source=item-share-cb

![image](https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--SmNQ4T9u--/f_auto/v1750074218/ugc/content_3a680af1-d009-4e00-a309-d55af2b5f25c?_a=BAMClqUq0)

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@shahbaz7** · 2 upvotes

> @spacemanspiff is right, it's almost a derivative of Entropy.
> Good on @vedved to accept that the original project inspired him.
> But since this one is Free and open source, count me in... I'll give it a try...

**@spacemanspiff** · 1 upvotes

> This looks a lot like this project that blew up a couple weeks ago?
> https://app.daily.dev/posts/wWyaz9jqt#c-JPuDwyUg1

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Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#google-chrome](https://daily.dev/tags/google-chrome), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security)

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