Privacy
The short version: NewsTrace has no account, no login, no analytics, and no server that stores anything about you. What you read stays on your device.
There is no NewsTrace account and nothing to sign up for. NewsTrace does not collect your name, email address, or any other identifying information, because there is no place to put it.
NewsTrace does not track which articles you read, does not build a profile of your reading, and does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts of any kind. Your browsing history is never transmitted anywhere.
Article text never leaves your device. When NewsTrace reads a page, it reads it locally in your browser and shows you the result. The text of what you are reading is not uploaded, stored, or shared.
The browser extension keeps a small local record of the news outlets it has encountered — the site's domain, the name it goes by, its type, how many times you have scanned it, and the domain-registration date once looked up. This is stored in your own browser using standard browser storage and is never transmitted to NewsTrace or anyone else.
You can view this record at any time from the panel, back it up to a file, or delete it by removing the extension.
If you choose to use the optional image-checking feature on the website, the key you supply is stored only in your own browser and is never sent to NewsTrace.
To do its job, NewsTrace makes a small number of requests to public services. Each one is listed here in full.
On the website version, the news search is routed through a public relay service because ordinary web pages are not permitted to make that request directly. Only the short search phrase passes through it. Article text never does.
Image checking is switched off by default. If you turn it on, you supply your own credentials for a third-party reverse-image-search service, and requests go directly from your browser to that service under your own account. NewsTrace does not see, store, or proxy those requests, and that service's own privacy policy governs them.
The browser extension requests only the permissions it needs to read the page you have asked it to check, show its panel, save its local record, and reach the three public services listed above. It does not read pages you have not asked it to check, and it does not run in the background collecting information.
NewsTrace is a general-audience tool and is not directed at children. Because it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your device, the change will be described here and the date below updated. Questions about privacy can be sent to the address published on the listing page where you installed NewsTrace.
Last updated 28 July 2026