Last updated: 2026-07-28


picolor collects nothing, transmits nothing, and contacts no server. All processing happens locally
in your browser.


picolor does not:

• Send selected colors anywhere
• Send visited URLs anywhere
• Collect browsing history
• Collect or read page content beyond the single element you click on Firefox
• Capture or upload screenshots
• Use analytics
• Use advertisements
• Use remote configuration
• Load remote executable code
• Track feature usage
• Create accounts or sync anything between devices

Stored in browser.storage.local, which never syncs and never leaves your machine:

| Item | Purpose |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Preferred color format | Which format appears first in the popup and is marked default |
| Last selected color | Shown when you reopen the popup |

Both are removed when you uninstall the extension. The last selected color can be deleted at any
time with the Clear saved color button in the popup.

There is no color history — only the most recent color is kept.


On Chromium browsers picolor uses the browser's native EyeDropper, which reads a screen pixel
without any access to the page. picolor requests no host permissions there.

On Firefox, which has no EyeDropper API, picolor injects a picker into the tab you are viewing —
but only after you click Pick a color, and only via activeTab, which grants access to that one
tab for that one action. The injected script reads the computed background color of the element you
click and writes that color to local storage. It reads nothing else and sends nothing anywhere.


Report a privacy concern by opening an issue on the project repository.