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Online Base64 Tools Raise Privacy Concerns for Sensitive Data Encoding

Developers and analysts who need to encode or decode sensitive data cannot safely use web-based Base64 tools because they require uploading files to remote servers. The lack of offline, privacy-preserving tooling for common encoding tasks creates friction for security-conscious workflows. This is a low-intensity but real friction point addressed by browser extensions and CLI tools.

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