Product updates
What’s new in Feldr
Feldr keeps private information out of AI chat windows. Here is what changed in the latest extension update - written plainly, with no jargon.
The headline change
Sending anyway now asks why.
Sometimes you genuinely do need to send something Feldr flagged. It is test data. Your manager already signed it off. That is fine - but now Feldr asks you to say which it is before the message goes through.
Pick one of five common reasons, or write your own. It takes a couple of seconds, and it means a real explanation sits beside the override instead of a blank space.
Choose from
- Data is test / dummy, not real
- Already approved for use with this AI tool
- Business-critical - approved by my manager
- False positive - this isn't sensitive data
- I have the data owner's consent
- Other - write your own, in your own words
Your reason travels with the alert to your security admins. The sensitive information itself is still never stored - only your explanation and the kind of data that was caught.
Send Anyway stays greyed out until you give a reason.
Also in this release
Every way past a warning is now accounted for.
“Ignore Once” is gone
The old one-click Ignore Once button dismissed a warning and left nothing behind. It has been removed. Send Anyway is now the only way past a warning, and it always leaves a record.
Escape closes the warning - nothing more
Pressing Esc used to quietly switch detection off for whatever you had just written. Now it simply closes the warning. Your next send is checked exactly like the first.
Your admin sees the reason, not the data
Each override now arrives in the dashboard with your explanation and the policy it touched - so a security lead can tell an approved exception from a genuine mistake at a glance.
Earlier this month
Everything else that landed.
Smaller fixes and improvements that arrived with recent updates. You did not have to do anything for any of them.
September 9
A one-time email check
The first time you open Feldr, you confirm your work email with a short code. It makes sure your protection and your organisation’s policies line up from the very first prompt.
September 7
Nothing slips past the warning
Fixed a case where a flagged message could still reach the AI tool while the warning was on screen. The warning now genuinely holds the message back.
September 7
A warning that looks like Feldr
The browser’s plain grey pop-up was replaced with Feldr’s own confirmation, so it is always clear what is asking you to stop, and why.
September 7
One less permission
Feldr no longer asks for access to your Gmail account. Incident logging continues exactly as before - it simply never needed that access.
September 5
Sharper reading of images and documents
Improvements to how Feldr pulls text out of screenshots and attached files, so blanked-out areas land accurately over the sensitive parts.
September 2
More data types, fewer false alarms
Feldr recognises a wider range of sensitive data, and stopped flagging ordinary engineering text and everyday expiry dates that were never sensitive to begin with.
September 1
The on-device model is verified before it runs
The detection model downloaded into your browser is now checked against a known fingerprint first, so a tampered or half-downloaded file is never used to protect you.
Unchanged
The parts that were never going to move.
Detection still happens on your device
Your prompts and files are scanned inside your own browser. They are not uploaded to Feldr to be checked.
We record the event, never the data
An incident notes what kind of data was caught and what you chose to do. The actual number, key, or record never leaves your machine.
It still covers every AI tab you open
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Cursor, and v0 - one extension, all of them.
Getting the update
You almost certainly already have it.
Your browser refreshes extensions on its own every few hours, so this update arrives without you lifting a finger. If you would like to check, open your browser’s extensions page and look at the version listed under Feldr - it should read 4.1.0.
If it is still showing an older number, turn on Developer mode on that page and press Update to pull it through straight away.
Last updated: September 18, 2026