Privacy Policy

Slopgauge · Last updated October 10, 2026

This privacy policy explains how the Slopgauge Chrome extension (Chrome Web Store item ID fmfnjbhhknbbdcighkhlindiaeajljie) and the website slopgauge.com, including its essay checker, handle your information. In this policy, “Slopgauge”, “we” and “us” mean the developer of Slopgauge.

Summary

• Slopgauge analyzes text on your device. The text you read or check is never sent to us or to anyone else.
• We do not collect, sell, rent or share any personal or sensitive user data.
• We have no servers that receive user data, no accounts, no analytics, no ads and no trackers.
• The settings and the feed history the extension keeps are stored only in your browser. You can turn the history off and delete it at any time.

1. Information the extension accesses

Slopgauge's single purpose is to show how AI-written (“sloppy”) the text you read looks. To do that, it accesses:

• Website content: the text of posts on the pages you visit, so it can show a slop meter on each post.
• Text you choose to check: text you select and check with the right-click “Check with Slopgauge” option, or paste into the toolbar popup.
• Google Docs you open: Google Docs draws documents on a canvas, so their text isn't on the page. When you open a Google Doc, Slopgauge downloads that document as plain text from Google (the same as File > Download > Plain text), using your existing Google session. That request goes only to Google, for a document you already have open.

How it is used: this text is analyzed in your browser, only to compute the meter and report shown to you. It is held in memory while it is analyzed and then discarded. It is not stored, not sent to us, and not sent to any third party.

Deep check (optional, off by default): when you turn it on in the toolbar popup, the same text is also scored by a neural AI-text detector that ships inside the extension and runs in a hidden page that belongs to the extension. Turning it on downloads nothing, and the text never leaves your device.

2. Information stored on your device

Settings. Your choices, such as sites or rules you turned off, are saved in Chrome's extension storage. If you use Chrome sync, Chrome syncs these settings between your devices through your Google account.

Feed history. Unless you turn it off in the toolbar popup, Slopgauge keeps a history on this device to show the “Your feed” report and lines like “7 of their last 9 posts measured Some slop or worse”. It contains:

• for each of the last 30 days, how many posts you scrolled past, their meter levels, and the sites they were on (for example linkedin.com);
• for posts whose page shows who wrote them, the author's display name, their profile handle and the meter levels of their last 20 posts, for up to 3,000 authors;
• a short one-way fingerprint of up to 5,000 recent posts, so each post is counted once. A fingerprint cannot be turned back into text.

The feed history never contains the text of what you read. It is never synced and never sent anywhere.

Retention. Days older than 30 days and the least recently seen authors beyond 3,000 are deleted automatically. “Clear” in the toolbar popup deletes the whole history at once. Uninstalling Slopgauge deletes everything it stored.

3. Information we collect

None. Slopgauge does not transmit user data to us. It has no accounts, analytics, crash reports, advertising identifiers or cookies of its own.

4. Sharing and sale of data

We do not sell, rent, share or transfer user data to anyone. User data is not used for advertising, for creditworthiness or lending, or for any purpose unrelated to Slopgauge's single purpose.

5. Third-party services

• Google. Slopgauge's only network request is the Google Docs download described above, which goes to Google. If you use Chrome sync, Google syncs your settings. Google's own privacy policy applies to both.
• GitHub Pages. slopgauge.com is hosted on GitHub Pages, which may log standard request data such as IP addresses, as described in GitHub's privacy statement. We run no analytics on the site.

Slopgauge does not load code from the internet. All of its code and models ship inside the extension.

6. The essay checker on slopgauge.com

The essay checker at slopgauge.com/check and the class page at slopgauge.com/class run the same detector in your browser tab. Text you paste and files you open there (Word, PDF or plain text) are read and analyzed on your device; they are not uploaded or stored. When you compare an essay with a writer's own writing, a style model is downloaded from slopgauge.com and runs in your browser; the texts never leave it. Your choice of “kind of text” is remembered in your browser's local storage. When you open a full report from the extension, the text is passed in the part of the address after the “#”, which browsers never send to a server; the page reads it and removes it from the address bar.

7. Permissions

8. Your choices

• Turn Slopgauge off on any site, or turn off individual rules, in the toolbar popup.
• Turn off the feed history, or delete it with “Clear”, in the toolbar popup.
• Leave Deep check off, or turn it off at any time.
• Uninstall the extension to remove it and everything it stored.

9. Security

Because the text you read is analyzed on your device and is never transmitted, there is no copy of it on any server to protect. The extension's own pages, including the Deep check page, are blocked by its content security policy from connecting to any server, and the Google Docs download goes from the Google Docs tab you have open to Google, over HTTPS.

10. Children's privacy

Slopgauge does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

11. Chrome Web Store User Data Policy

Slopgauge's use of information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: support@slopgauge.com