Your PDF and Image Tools Are Uploading Your Files to Strangers Servers

Your PDF and Image Tools Are Uploading Your Files to Strangers' Servers Every time you merge a PDF or compress an image online, your files get uploaded to someone else's server. Think about that for a second. That contract you're merging? Uploaded. Those personal photos you're resizing? Uploaded. That medical document you're converting? You guessed it — uploaded to a server you don't control, in a country you might not know, with a retention policy buried in a 12-page privacy policy you didn't read. The dirty secret of "free" online tools Most popular PDF and image tools work the same way: You upload your file to their server Their server processes it They send back the result Your file sits on their server for... how long? 🤷 iLovePDF says files are deleted after 2 hours. Smallpdf says 1 hour. But you're trusting a promise you can't verify. And during that window, your sensitive documents exist on infrastructure you don't own. For a developer resizing a screenshot, maybe that's fine. B