Bookmark cleanup questions, answered

Open Chrome Bookmark Manager, open the More menu, and choose Export bookmarks. Chrome saves bookmarks.html, which you can select on the Bookmark Cleaner home page.

No. The browser reads the selected file locally. Bookmark Cleaner does not send the file, URLs, titles, folders, saved dates, duplicate results, review decisions, backup, or cleaned export to a server.

Plausible Analytics measures aggregate public-site traffic. Cloudflare may also provide aggregate request, status, performance, and reliability metrics for operating the site. There is no advertising pixel, and bookmark content is never attached to analytics or operational metrics.

Exact duplicates have identical URLs. Normalized duplicates match after conservative cleanup of protocol, www, trailing slash, fragments, and common tracking parameters. Possible duplicates share similar domain and path patterns and require manual review.

No. Each group begins undecided, and the user selects Keep, Remove, or Ignore. The app cannot modify Chrome's live library; it only creates a separate file after review.

Cleanup export stays disabled until the original HTML is downloaded as a dated backup. If you change your mind or import the wrong output, the original structure remains available.

Yes. cleaned-bookmarks.html uses Chrome's Netscape bookmark format. The app parses its own output again before download to verify the folder structure and bookmark content.

Yes. Licensing can be separated from bookmark processing. Advanced local rules, bulk review, reports, and browser-extension workflows can remain on-device even if access to them is paid.