Copy & paste, unblocked.
Turns copy, paste, text selection and right-click back on for websites that block them, only on the sites you choose.
No account. No ads. No tracking. Free forever.
Try it
The box on the right behaves like a site that blocks copying. Try to select the text or right-click it. Then flip the switch, the same one you get in Unlatch, and try again.
Weeknight dinners
Rinse a cup of toor dal until the water runs clear, then pressure-cook it with turmeric and a pinch of salt for four whistles. Finish with a tadka of ghee, cumin, garlic and dried red chillies, poured on while it still sizzles.
How to use it
Go to the page that won’t let you select, copy, paste or right-click.
Open Unlatch from the toolbar and switch on Unlock this site. An ON badge shows wherever it’s active.
Select, copy, paste and right-click. Or skip the menu entirely: Alt+Shift+U toggles the current site.
What it fixes
Pages that switch off highlighting with CSS or scripts, even with inline !important rules.
Blocked clipboard events go straight to the browser, so they just work.
Those “confirm your email” and password boxes that make you type it all twice.
Including the “right-click is not allowed” pop-ups some sites throw at you.
Ctrl/Cmd + C, V, X and A, plus Shift + Insert, respond again.
No more “Read more at…” tacked on to the end of your clipboard.
Only where you want it
Unlatch does nothing on a site until you unlock it. Unlocking example.com also covers its subdomains and any pages embedded in it. “Unlock every site” exists, but it’s off by default.
Private by design
No network requests, no analytics, no account. The list of sites you unlock is stored locally in Chrome and never sent anywhere. Read the privacy policy.
Questions
Something else? Email unlatch@itskk.in and you’ll get a reply from the person who built it.
Yes. Unlatch is completely free, with no ads, no premium tier, no account and no sign-up. It isn’t a trial.
You can unlock any site you like, so Chrome asks for access to all of them up front. Unlatch only runs on the sites you switch on, and it never reads, collects or sends page content anywhere. The code makes no network requests at all.
Yes. It works in Chrome 111 or newer and other Chromium-based browsers that can install from the Chrome Web Store.
Web apps such as Google Docs, Figma and Notion have their own right-click menus and paste handling. Unlocking them swaps those for the browser’s, so it’s better to unlock only the sites that need it.
Click Reload page in the Unlatch menu once. If the text is drawn on a canvas, shown as an image, or covered by an invisible layer, it isn’t real text, and no extension can copy it as text.
In your own browser, using Chrome’s local extension storage. They never leave your device.
Free, private, and out of the way until you need it.
Coming soon to the Chrome Web Store