Outdegree — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-07-07

Outdegree records the web pages you navigate to and stores them only on your own device, in your browser’s local IndexedDB storage.

The extension makes no network requests. Your browsing data is never transmitted, uploaded, collected, sold, or shared — it never leaves your computer.

You can export your data to a local file, or delete it (in whole or by site) at any time from the extension. Uninstalling the extension removes all stored data.

The extension does not run in Incognito mode and records nothing there.

How this is enforced (not just promised)

• The extension declares no host permissions (host_permissions: []), so it has no granted ability to contact any website or server.
• Its Content Security Policy sets connect-src 'none', so fetch, XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket, EventSource, and navigator.sendBeacon are blocked by the browser — even a misbehaving dependency cannot exfiltrate data.
• "incognito": "not_allowed" means incognito browsing is never observed.
• There are no content scripts, no <all_urls> access, and no remotely-hosted code. The Public Suffix List used for domain grouping is embedded at build time and never fetched.
• Site icons are displayed from Chrome’s own local favicon cache (the favicon permission), served from the extension’s own address — this makes no network request and fetches nothing from the internet. In browsers without that local service (e.g. Firefox) the icons are simply not shown.
• The only way data leaves the extension is a user-initiated export, which writes a file to your own disk — never a network upload.

What is processed

Navigation metadata only: the URL you navigated to, the navigation type (e.g. link, typed, form submit), and timing. To distinguish time actively spent on a page from time it sat in a background tab, the extension also records which tab and window are focused — as numeric browser ids and timestamps only, carrying no URL or title. The extension does not read page content.

Contact

Source code and issues: https://github.com/erovelli/Outdegree