Privacy policy

YouWatch is a Chrome extension that changes how youtube.com looks and behaves in your browser. It has no server. The people who make YouWatch never receive your data.

What YouWatch reads

YouWatch runs only on www.youtube.com. Using the YouTube session already signed in to your browser, it reads from YouTube:

• your home feed, subscriptions, watch history, Watch later and liked videos
• your account name and profile photo
• details of the video or channel you open (title, channel, description, category, captions when you open the transcript)
• the titles and addresses of your open YouTube tabs

What YouWatch stores, and where

Everything is stored in Chrome on your computer (extension storage and IndexedDB):

• settings, moods and the channels you assign to them
• sessions, daily watch time and the watch log behind the Dashboard
• saves, learning paths, notes, and frame notes with their images (full build)
• questions and answers from Ask and summaries you choose to keep
• a count of comments you post, with no comment text
• a local error log used for troubleshooting

If you choose a data folder, YouWatch also writes this data to youwatch-data.json and dated backups in that folder. If that folder is inside iCloud Drive, Dropbox or a similar service, that service will copy the files. API keys and tokens are never written to the folder.

What leaves your computer

• Requests to www.youtube.com, sent with your own YouTube session, to load the pages and lists above and to carry out actions you click (Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Save to Watch later).
• Search suggestions: the text you type in YouWatch search goes to YouTube's suggestion service (suggestqueries-clients6.youtube.com) without your cookies.
• Thumbnails load from i.ytimg.com.

Nothing is sent to the makers of YouWatch or to any analytics, advertising or tracking service.

AI features

AI features are off until you turn them on. They use Chrome's built-in on-device model (Gemini Nano). Transcripts, titles and thumbnails given to it are processed on your computer and are not uploaded by YouWatch. In the full build, "Ask about this video" can use YouTube's own Ask panel, in which case your question goes to YouTube under YouTube's terms.

Sharing and selling

YouWatch does not sell or share your data. It does not use your data for advertising, for creditworthiness, or for any purpose other than the features you see.

Deleting your data

• Settings > Data & Backup lets you clear the error log and manage the data folder.
• Removing the extension deletes everything stored in Chrome.
• Files in your data folder stay until you delete them.

Changes

If a later version adds a cloud feature, this policy will be updated first and the feature will ask for your consent before it sends anything.

This website

This site (youwatch.brandbakery.tech) is a static page served by Cloudflare. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. Cloudflare processes standard request data, such as IP address, to deliver and protect the site.

Contact

Questions and requests: email support@brandbakery.tech. YouWatch is built and maintained by Brand Bakery.