Worth my time? ("the extension") is built to run entirely on your own device, using your own AI provider API key. This policy explains exactly what the extension accesses, what it sends, and to whom.
What the extension accesses
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The URL of the active tab, only to check whether it's a
youtube.com(oryoutu.be) video page and to read the video ID from it. - That video's own public page data (title, channel name, description, caption/transcript track, and — if you provide a YouTube Data API key — like/comment/subscriber counts), fetched directly from YouTube.
The extension does not read, collect, or have access to your browsing history, other tabs, other websites, or any YouTube account/login data beyond what's needed to load the public video page.
What gets sent, and to whom
When you open a YouTube video, the extension sends that video's title, description, and transcript to the AI provider you configured (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, or Poe) using your own API key, so it can generate the summary, key highlights, signal scores, and Worth-It score shown in the side panel. This request goes directly from your browser to that provider's API — it does not pass through any server operated by the developer of this extension.
If you add an optional YouTube Data API key, video/channel statistics are requested directly from Google's YouTube Data API using that key, the same way.
No other third party ever receives this data. The extension makes no requests to any server operated by the developer.
What the developer collects
Nothing. The developer of this extension does not operate any backend, does not receive analytics, telemetry, usage data, or any of your video/API data. There is no server component to this extension at all — everything described above happens directly between your browser and the services you've explicitly configured (YouTube, and your chosen AI provider).
What's stored, and where
Your AI provider selection, API key(s), YouTube Data API key (if added), signal weighting preferences,
and cached analysis results are stored using chrome.storage.local — locally, on your own
device, within your own browser profile. This data is never transmitted anywhere except as described
above (i.e., your API key is sent only to the provider it belongs to, as part of each analysis request).
Uninstalling the extension removes all of this locally stored data.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will be revised accordingly.