Last updated 17 August 2026 · ImposterShield LLC, a Utah limited liability company
The extension looks at images on pages you visit and reports the ones whose files carry an AI marker. That analysis happens entirely on your own computer. The pages you visit, the images on them, and your browsing history are never sent to us or to anyone else.
Three things do leave your machine, and they are listed below in full. There is nothing else.
The computer scan sends nothing at all. It is a separate download and it makes no network connections whatsoever. Everything in this policy below refers to the browser extension.
Version 0.6.0 downloads no model at all. It reads AI markers out of the image file itself, which needs no machine learning model, so models.impostershield.com is never contacted.
Earlier versions downloaded a roughly 85 MB detection model from that address once and cached it. If a future version brings the classifier back, it will download a model again, our server will see your IP address and the standard request headers your browser sends, and this page will say so before that version ships. We do not link that to an identity and we do not use it to build a profile.
Once per day the extension sends us two things: a random identifier generated on your computer when you installed it, and the version number of the extension.
That is the entire message. We use it to count roughly how many people still have it installed and which versions are in use, so we know whether a release broke something.
The identifier is a random value. It is not derived from you, your device, your Google account, or anything else about you, and it lets us count installs without identifying anyone. Uninstalling and reinstalling produces a brand new one.
When the extension flags something and you disagree, you can click "This flag is wrong" in the popup. Only then, and only for that one item, we receive:
Nothing is sent unless you click that link. We use these reports to find where the detector is wrong and to make it better.
The free computer scan is a downloadable script, separate from the extension. It transmits nothing. It opens no network connections, contacts no server of ours or anyone else's, and would run identically with the internet unplugged.
It reads the list of programs running on your computer, your background services, the programs set to start with Windows, your installed program list, and which programs are accepting network connections. It compares those against a list of known remote-control, monitoring, AI and automation software that ships inside the scan itself. It never reads the contents of your documents, photos, email or messages.
The report it produces is an HTML file written to your Desktop. It stays on your computer until you delete it. We never see it unless you choose to email it to us.
The scan changes nothing on your computer. It installs nothing, creates no account, and only reads.
We do not sell data, we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we do not use it for advertising. There is no advertising in this product and no plan to add any.
Chrome shows a broad permission warning because the extension needs to read images on whatever page you are looking at. Fakes can appear anywhere, so it cannot be limited to a list of sites in advance.
What that permission allows and what we actually do with it are different things. It reads images on the page in order to score them locally. It does not read your page content back to us.
The downloaded model, the random install identifier, the date of the last heartbeat, and per-tab results for pages you currently have open. Uninstalling the extension removes all of it.
This product is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
If we ever start collecting something not listed here, we will update this page and change the date at the top before that version ships. We would rather lose a feature than quietly widen what we collect.
Questions, or a request to delete a report you sent: [email protected]
ImposterShield LLC
1865 South Pleasant Grove Blvd, Suite E
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062, United States