I Built a Privacy-First Chrome Extension That Saves Your Forms Locally — Zero Network Requests
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I Built a Privacy-First Chrome Extension That Saves Your Forms Locally You're 800 words deep into a job application. Tab crashes. Refresh. Gone. We've all been there. Most "form saver" extensions phone home to some SaaS with a freemium tier and a privacy policy nobody reads. I wanted the opposite: something that runs entirely on my machine, never makes a network request, and just works. So I built FormVault — an open-source Chrome extension that auto-saves form data to local storage