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Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 6, 2025

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The short version

Shh-YouTube is 100% private. We don't collect any data about you — not your browsing, not your preferences, not anything. Everything stays on your device.

What we collect

Nothing. Literally nothing. Here's what we don't do:

  • Collect personal information
  • Track your browsing history
  • Gather analytics or usage data
  • Create or access cookies
  • Send data to external servers
  • Use third-party services

What's stored on your device

The extension saves just two simple preferences — whether to show or hide recommendations in different areas of YouTube:

showHome
Controls the YouTube homepage recommendations
showRelated
Controls the sidebar video suggestions

These are stored using Chrome's built-in storage — they never leave your browser. If you use Chrome Sync, these tiny settings may sync across your devices through your Google account (that's a Chrome feature, not ours).

Permissions explained

Here's why the extension asks for certain permissions — and what it actually does with them:

storage
Saves your show/hide preferences so they stick between sessions
tabs
Updates open YouTube tabs instantly when you change settings

The extension only runs on youtube.com. It adds CSS to hide visual elements — it doesn't read your watch history, account info, or anything else.

Network activity

Zero. This extension makes no network requests whatsoever. No API calls, no analytics, no tracking pixels, no uploads, no downloads. Everything happens locally in your browser.

Third parties

There aren't any. This extension doesn't integrate with, share data with, or communicate with any external services.

Children's privacy

Since we don't collect any information from anyone, this naturally includes children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If we ever update this policy, we'll change the date at the top. But since we don't collect data, major changes are pretty unlikely.

Questions?

Reach out through the Chrome Web Store listing or the project's GitHub repository.

🤫 Bottom line: No data in. No data out. Ever.