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For Pastea the answer is short: it stays on your Mac. Here is what that means in practice, feature by feature.",[95,96,98],"h2",{"id":97},"local-first-actually","Local-first, actually",[91,100,101,102,106],{},"Your clipboard history is stored on your Mac, in Pastea's Application Support data. Copied text, code, images, files, screenshots, and colors are not uploaded to or stored on our servers — there is no account, and no server of ours that ever holds a clip. 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The menu bar icon shows a pause badge while capture is off.",[145,183,184],{},"Ignore specific apps, so nothing copied inside them is captured — the right tool for a password manager or a banking app.",[145,186,187,188,190],{},"Ignore whole content types, in the same ",[126,189,128],{}," page.",[91,192,193,194,197],{},"If anything here raises a question the ",[103,195,196],{"href":38},"help centre"," doesn't answer, email us — a person will reply.",{"title":199,"searchDepth":200,"depth":200,"links":201},"",2,[202,203,204,205,206,207],{"id":97,"depth":200,"text":98},{"id":109,"depth":200,"text":110},{"id":136,"depth":200,"text":137},{"id":155,"depth":200,"text":156},{"id":165,"depth":200,"text":166},{"id":172,"depth":200,"text":173},"2026-09-01","Your clipboard history stays on your Mac. 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