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    Chrome extension privacy

    For the Honeyb AI Crawler Check extension. Last updated: August 3, 2026.

    1. Summary

    The Honeyb AI Crawler Check extension tells you whether AI crawlers can read the page you are looking at. When you click the toolbar icon, it sends one thing to Honeyb: the hostname of the active tab, for example example.com. Nothing else about you or the page is transmitted.

    It sends nothing at all until you click the icon. There is no background activity, no tracking across sites, and no account or sign-in.

    2. What the extension sends

    On click, the extension calls https://www.honeyb.ai/api/tools/ai-crawlers with the active tab's hostname as a query parameter.

    • Hostname only. The path, query string, fragment and page contents are not sent. example.com/private/report?id=42 is sent as example.com.
    • Why it is needed. The check has to be run from outside your browser. Anything running inside Chrome inherits Chrome's network identity, so it receives a normal response from sites that refuse real AI crawlers. Our server connects to the public site as a crawler would, which is the only way to detect that difference.
    • What our server does with it. Requests the site's public homepage and robots.txt, exactly as any crawler or visitor could, and returns the result to your browser.

    Standard web server logs record the request, including your IP address, as any website does. We apply a short-term rate limit per IP to prevent abuse.

    3. What never leaves your browser

    The extension also compares the page's server HTML against what is on screen, to detect pages that only exist after JavaScript runs. That comparison happens entirely inside the tab.

    • Page content, text and HTML are never transmitted.
    • Full URLs, query strings and form data are never transmitted.
    • Cookies, credentials and browsing history are never read or transmitted.
    • No data is stored on your device, and no analytics run inside the extension.

    4. Why each permission is needed

    • activeTab: read the hostname of the tab you are on, and only when you click the icon. It grants no access to other tabs and expires after use.
    • scripting: run the render comparison inside the current tab. This is the only way to compare the server's HTML with the rendered page.
    • Host access to www.honeyb.ai: call our checking endpoint. The extension requests no access to any other site.

    5. Retention and sharing

    Checked hostnames are processed to produce your result and are not used to build a profile of you. We do not sell, rent or share extension data with third parties, and we do not use it for advertising. Server logs follow the retention described in our main privacy policy.

    The extension requires no account. Uninstalling it removes it completely, as it stores nothing on your device.

    6. Contact

    SIA Honeyb, registered in the Republic of Latvia. Questions about this policy or a data request: hello@honeyb.ai.