Developers paste surprisingly sensitive information into online utilities every day: API responses, access tokens, database records, cURL commands, and configuration fragments. A formatter or converter may look harmless, but the input can still contain customer data, internal URLs, credentials, or claims that were never meant to leave a local machine.
That is why I built DevCrate: an open-source collection of developer utilities where the conversion work happens in the browser instead of a processing API.
The hidden risk in convenient online tools
A typical online converter can send your input to a remote server before returning the formatted result. The site may be legitimate, but a developer often cannot verify:
whether the payload is logged;
