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I Built a PII Redactor That Runs 100% in Your Browser

DEV Community·Pure Life Tribe·23 days ago
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Because sending logs with customer data should never feel like playing Russian roulette. You know that exact moment. You’re staring at a production log, a support ticket, or a messy JSON response. It has everything you need to debug the issue… and a bunch of stuff you definitely shouldn’t share. An email address here. A phone number there. Maybe even a credit card test number someone left in by mistake. You could spend 20 minutes doing find-and-replace. Or you could just cross your fingers and hope for the best. Or, you could paste the whole thing into a tool that redacts everything sensitive in one click, locally, with zero data leaving your machine. That’s exactly what I built. It’s called the PII Redactor on Utilora . How It Actually Works The core idea is stupidly simple: a bunch of regex patterns run one after another on your text. Every match gets replaced with a placeholder (you can choose what it shows - [REDACTED] , [EMAIL] , etc.). What I like is the feedback it gives you.…

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