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Pause the extension or exclude a site

The extension can be paused entirely from the popup, or excluded from a specific URL by an administrator. The per-site toggle that lives directly in the popup isn’t shipped yet — pausing is the closest user-facing equivalent.

Why you might want to

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  • Custom editors that break under observation. Some rich-text editors (older CMSes, certain in-house tools) re-render aggressively enough that the extension’s underlines flicker or the editor slows down noticeably.
  • Sites that are irrelevant to policy checking. If your team has no policies that would ever apply to what you’re doing on a given site, there’s no reason to scan there.
  • Sites with strict content security policies. Most CSP-protected sites work fine because the extension bypasses page CSP, but a handful have extra defenses that cause rendering issues.

Pause the extension globally

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The popup has a single Extension Active / Paused toggle. Click the InPolicy icon in the toolbar and flip the switch — every site stops being scanned until you flip it back. This is the right answer when an editor is misbehaving and you need a quick out.

The pause state is stored locally in the browser, so it carries across browser restarts on the same Chrome profile.

Exclude a specific URL

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Per-site exclusion is a local browser toggle only — there is no server-side API for it. To exclude a domain today:

  • End users: ask your admin for guidance, or contact support.

When a site is excluded, the extension’s content script still loads on those pages but stops scanning text and drawing underlines. Sign-in state and other sites are unaffected.

How admins can exclude sites fleet-wide

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Admins can maintain a tenant-wide exclusion list using the same admin API. This is useful for:

  • Internal apps where detection is unnecessary.
  • Payment processors or other sensitive sites where an extension observing the DOM is a compliance concern.
  • Legacy systems that break under the observer.

A dedicated admin UI is on the roadmap. Until it ships, ask support to seed the list for you.

What pausing or excluding does not do

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  • It does not uninstall the extension. To uninstall, see Install the extension.
  • It does not sign you out.
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