About HateItAll

The problem, as we experienced it

You need to do something trivial: merge two PDFs, black out an email address in a screenshot, shrink a video. The web offers a hundred tools, and somehow they all want the same things — upload your confidential file to a stranger's server, make an account, sit through an ad, accept a watermark, and hit a “free tier” limit that exists purely to sell you the paid one.

The absurd part is that your laptop and your phone are more than powerful enough to do this work themselves. Browsers can decode images, parse PDFs, unpack spreadsheets, and re-encode video. The upload step exists for the tool vendor's benefit, not yours — and it turns every trivial file task into a small act of trust in a company you've never heard of.

So we removed the step.

What we built instead

HateItAll is a suite of file tools that run inside your browser tab. Your file is opened locally, processed locally, verified locally, and downloaded from your own browser's memory. There is no upload endpoint, no account system, no watermark engine. The how it works page shows you how to verify that with your browser's own developer tools.

Principles we actually follow

• Local by design. File bytes, pixels, cells, text, and outputs stay on your device. This is architecture, not a settings toggle.
• Fail closed. When a tool cannot verify that an output is what it claims, it blocks the download or labels it honestly — it never defaults to “probably fine.”
• Redaction means removal. Solid redaction and cosmetic blurring are different things, and our tools never conflate them. Blur gets a warning; secure redaction gets pixel verification.
• Review before export. Anything automatic is a suggestion until you accept it.
• Preserve the original. Tools write new files; your source file is never overwritten.
• Verify the result. Every privacy-relevant output is reopened and rescanned before you download it.
• No hidden degradation. If a conversion loses transparency, animation, or fidelity, you hear about it before you export, not after.
• No content telemetry. Currently we run no analytics at all. If we ever measure anything, it will be non-content events, and the tools will work with measurement blocked. Details in the privacy policy.

What HateItAll is not

• Not account-walled. There is nothing to sign up for.
• Not watermarked. Your output is your output.
• Not artificially limited. There are no upload limits because there are no uploads. Practical limits come from your device's memory and browser, and we say so plainly instead of selling you a bigger number.
• Not pretending to be magic. Some things browsers can't do well yet. When a tool has a real limitation — a re-encode, a codec gap, a format that can't round-trip — the limitation is printed on the page, above the fold, before you pick a file.

The name

Yes, it's a bit much. But it's honest: this product exists because we hated everything about dealing with files online. The humour stops at the workspace door, though — warnings, privacy states, and anything involving your data's safety are written in calm, literal language. Frustration is for marketing; precision is for your files.