libredirect/Privacy-Policy.md

Data collected

• LibRedirect does not collect any Personal Information of any kind.
• LibRedirect doesn't embed any kind of analytics in its code.
• All aspects of the extension work locally in your browser, with the exception of OpenStreetMap (OSM) reverse geocoding, done via the OSM Nomantim API, used as part of OSM redirects, which can be disabled by toggling the OSM redirects.
• It also connects to this url to update the Instances List. Though this only gets triggered when the user presses the Update Instances button.

Permissions

• webRequest, webRequestBlocking: To block http requests or redirect them. e.g redirect to YouTube => Invidious before it can reach YouTube's servers.
• storage: To save LibRedirect's settings permanently.
• cookies: To apply settings on multiple instances. Note that we use localStorage too. Those options are disabled by default though.
• contextMenus: For adding some buttons to the right click:
  
• <all_urls>: LibRedirect is dynamic and customizable. The targets e.g https://youtube.com, https://twitter.com are written in Regex and are much more complicated than to be hard-coded in the manifest. Ex: search Regex. Further more, we need to access the instances sites too to inject some localStorage variables. There's also an option to Always Use Preferred instances that is to even redirect of any other invidious instance to your selected instances. This has to be dynamic and you may even add a custom instance which can't at all be hard-coded.

Future Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.