USE CASES
When a family member being online is on your mind. When you want one more look before you send, open or type something. When you want a little less work in an ordinary day.
Browse Legacy Tools by the situation rather than the name. All of them are free Chrome extensions, and the work happens inside your own browser.
FOR FAMILY
A parent opening an email. Asking an AI something. Typing details into a site they do not know. These add one chance to check before that moment. They put no limits on how the browser is used.
A question typed into an AI chat carries names and contact details along with it. One tool replaces them inside the input field; the other speaks up at the moment of sending.
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A bill or a delivery notice, or something that looks like one. Clicking the link brings up a confirmation instead of opening it, so there is a chance to look at where it goes first.
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One tool shows what the page states about its operator, with the evidence; the other speaks up just before an address is sent. The one that checks the operator runs only when the toolbar icon is pressed, so it is worth trying it together the first time.
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What travels with the photo or the form is the place it was taken and the name left behind in the document. That is on screen from the moment the file is attached, in time to decide whether to send it as it is. The file itself is never rewritten.
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None of these rule anything safe or dangerous, and installing one does not make anything safe. All they do is put one more piece of information in front of the person who decides. A family member or a helper can do the first setup together with them.
Choosing for a parent rather than for yourself? Which one to start with, what the first setup decides, and what these tools deliberately do not do — in order, written to be read by the family. Read the page written for families →BEFORE YOU SEND
In a hurry, on a screen you have seen a thousand times, anyone misses things. This is the section for noticing before you press something rather than after.
An address, a phone number or a case name can survive in text you pasted. This is the check that happens at the moment you send.
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Before an email, a set of meeting notes or an error log goes to an AI chat, the names, addresses and phone numbers in it are replaced inside the input field.
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The first click is held once, and the words of the link are put beside the address it really goes to. Shortened URLs and bare IP addresses are pointed out; nothing is declared safe or dangerous.
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Location in a photo, the author of a PDF, tracked changes in Word, hidden sheets in Excel — shown inside the browser at the moment you attach the file. The file is not rewritten.
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Before you type anything in, read what the page says about its own operator, with the excerpt it came from. It is primarily designed for Japanese websites.
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Send in Gmail during the hours you set as night and three options appear: back to drafts, use scheduled send, or send it now.
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EVERYDAY WORK
Gathering what you read, fixing the lines you copied, working out an age from a date in an article. Nothing here is about safety — it is about the small, repetitive parts.
Keep the passages you find while researching in one place, even when they come from different pages, then copy the lot in one go.
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Keep only the parts you need, put them in the order you want, and rejoin the lines a web page broke mid-paragraph before you paste anything.
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Select a date on a web page and the age on that day appears right there, along with the day of the week and how long ago it was.
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BEFORE YOU PASS IT ON
ALL TOOLS
There are uses beyond the ones listed here. The tool list shows what each one can do.
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