Gitignore Debugger does not collect anything. There are no accounts, no cookies, no analytics and no adverts. The file paths and.gitignore rules you type are matched by JavaScript running inside your own browser, and are never sent anywhere.
The rest of this page explains that in detail.
What information this site collects
None. The site is a single static page with no server-side code of its own. Specifically, it does not:
- ask for or store your name, email address or any other personal detail
- create an account, a profile or a persistent identifier for you
- set cookies
- use
sessionStorageor IndexedDB - run analytics or tracking scripts
- display adverts
- embed third-party widgets, fonts or scripts
The one piece of browser storage this site does use islocalStorage, and only to remember which theme you picked — Light or Dark — so the page looks the same the next time you open it. That preference stays in your own browser: it is not sent to our server, and it is not used for tracking or analytics.
Your file paths and .gitignore content
This is the part that matters most, so it is worth being precise about how it works.
The matching engine is ordinary JavaScript, downloaded once along with the page and then run entirely inside your browser. When you pressDebug this file, the comparison happens on your own machine. The page makes no network request at that moment. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is logged, and nothing is written to disk.
What you type is held in the page's memory only, for as long as the tab stays open. Closing or reloading the tab discards it. Because the values sit in ordinary form fields, your browser may offer to autofill them again later — that is your browser's own behaviour rather than something this site controls, and you can clear it through your browser settings.
The practical consequence is that pasting a real .gitignorehere does not disclose it to us. We could not read it even if we wanted to, because it never leaves your computer.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies of any kind — not essential cookies, not preference cookies, not tracking cookies. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.
Analytics
There is no analytics on this site. No page-view counter, no heatmaps, no session recording and no error-reporting service. We do not know how many people visit or what they do here, which is a trade-off we accept.
Advertising
There is no advertising on this site, and no advertising or ad-personalisation network is configured — including Google AdSense. No advertising identifier is created, read or shared.
Third-party services
The page loads no third-party resources. The typefaces are ones already installed on your device, the icons are files served from this site, and there are no embedded videos, comment systems, chat widgets or social buttons.
The one thing outside this site's own code is hosting. Like any website, these files have to be served by a web server, and web servers commonly keep short-term access logs — typically the requesting IP address, the time, the file requested and the browser's user-agent string — for delivery and abuse prevention. That logging happens at the hosting layer; this site's code neither creates nor can read it. It never includes anything you typed into the tool, because that data is never transmitted in the first place.
Privacy questions and requests
Because this site collects no personal data, there is nothing held for us to look up, correct or delete on request. If you have a question about this policy, or you think something described on this page is inaccurate, please get in touch.
Contact: admin@ignoredebugger.com
Changes to this policy
If anything described above changes — if analytics, advertising, an account system or any other form of data collection is ever added — this page will be updated to describe it, and the date at the top will change with it. There is no mailing list, so re-reading this page is the only way to see revisions.