Privacy
Tubeless collects nothing about you. Here’s exactly what it keeps, where it keeps it, and what this website does.
The extension
Tubeless makes no network requests. There’s no telemetry, no analytics and no tracking, and it loads no code from anywhere. It doesn’t even phone home to check for updates; your browser’s add-on store, or the App Store, looks after that.
It only runs on youtube.com. It adds a stylesheet to the page, and reads and sends nothing from it: not what you watch, not what you search for, not your account.
The one other permission it asks for is storage, to remember your switches. Your browser keeps those:
- Firefox and Chrome keep them in the browser’s own sync, so they follow you to your other computers if you’ve turned sync on. They go nowhere else.
- Safari keeps them on each device and doesn’t sync them, so your iPhone and your Mac each have their own.
On Firefox it goes a step further and declares, through Firefox’s own data-collection setting, that it collects nothing at all.
The Tubeless app for Safari
The app collects nothing either. It shows how to set up the extension, from a page built into the app, and its links open in your browser. There’s no account, no ads and no in-app purchases.
This website
tubeless.app has no cookies and no analytics, and loads nothing from other sites. It’s hosted by bunny.net, which keeps a standard log of requests, such as the address asked for, when, and which browser asked, for three days, with the last part of your IP address removed.
Questions
If you’ve a question about any of this, email steve@tubeless.app. Tubeless is made by Steve Abraham, in Scotland, and all of its code is on git.scot for anyone who wants to check. If any of this changes, this page will say so.