Privacy Policy
Last updated: 11 July 2026 · Covers the Feedom browser extension and the feedom.co.uk website
The short version: The Feedom extension collects nothing — no servers, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts. Your settings are stored by your own browser and never leave it. The website (feedom.co.uk) uses one privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics tool to count visits; it never identifies you. Details below.
What Feedom does
Feedom is a browser extension that filters what YouTube shows you: it can send YouTube's home page to your subscriptions feed, hide Shorts and recommendations, and optionally block live broadcasts and BBC channels (a UK TV-licence precaution). All of this happens locally, inside your browser, on youtube.com pages only.
Data we collect
None. Feedom does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any data — no personal information, no browsing history, no watch history, no analytics, and no crash reports. There is no Feedom server; the extension makes no network requests of its own.
Data stored on your device
Feedom stores one thing: your preferences (which filters are on, sidebar visibility choices, any channels you've whitelisted, and optional custom CSS). These are saved using Chrome's built-in chrome.storage.sync API.
- Preferences are stored locally by your browser.
- If you are signed in to Chrome with sync enabled, Chrome itself may sync these preferences across your devices under Google's own privacy policy. Feedom has no access to this process and no Google account information.
- Uninstalling Feedom removes its stored preferences.
Page content
To do its job, Feedom's content script reads the structure of YouTube pages in your browser (for example, to find Shorts shelves or a live badge) and hides or blocks elements according to your settings. This processing is entirely local, is used solely to provide the filtering you switched on, and is never recorded, stored, or transmitted anywhere. No human ever sees it.
Permissions
- storage — saves your preferences, as described above.
- Access to youtube.com — lets the filtering run on YouTube pages. Feedom requests access to no other websites.
What we never do
- No sale or transfer of user data to any third party.
- No use of data for advertising, profiling, or creditworthiness.
- No tracking pixels, fingerprinting, or analytics inside the extension — nothing you do on YouTube is ever measured.
The Feedom website (feedom.co.uk)
This website is separate from the extension. To understand how many people visit and which pages are useful, it uses Plausible Analytics — a privacy-focused, open-source tool that we self-host on our own infrastructure. Plausible:
- uses no cookies and needs no cookie banner;
- collects no personal data and never identifies you;
- does not track you across sites or build a profile of you;
- records only aggregate, anonymous counts (page views, referrer, country, browser and device type).
Because we self-host Plausible, this anonymous data is never shared with or sold to anyone. The browser extension itself remains completely analytics-free.
Children
Feedom does not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children — because it collects no data at all.
Changes to this policy
If Feedom's privacy practices ever change (for example, if a future version added optional error reporting), this page will be updated first and the change will be called out in the extension's release notes before it ships.
Contact
Questions? Email hello@feedom.co.uk.
Feedom is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. TV licensing information is provided as a precaution only and is not legal advice — see tvlicensing.co.uk for official guidance.