Privacy Policy — Smart Block

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Short version

Smart Block does not collect, transmit or sell any personal data. Everything it keeps stays in your own browser.

What the extension stores

• Your settings: which rules are on or off and whether blocking is paused. These are saved with the Chrome storage.sync API, so they live in your Chrome profile and Chrome itself syncs them between your signed-in devices.
• Counters: how many items each rule hid per day, for the "today" and "7 days" numbers in the popup. These are plain counts with no page addresses, video titles or search queries. They are saved with the Chrome storage.local API, stay on this device only, and days older than 60 days are deleted automatically.

Neither the settings nor the counters ever reach the author of this extension or any third party.

What the extension does on web pages

The extension runs only on youtube.com and Google Search pages. There it:

• hides page elements such as YouTube Shorts, the YouTube home feed, related videos and comments, and the "Top stories" block and the News tab in Google Search;
• redirects a few addresses inside the same sites, for example a YouTube Shorts link to the YouTube home page, or news.google.com to google.com.

To do this it looks at the structure of the page in your browser. Nothing about the pages, your searches, the videos you watch or your accounts is recorded or sent anywhere.

The extension does not run on any other website.

What the extension does not do

• No analytics, telemetry or crash reporting
• No cookies, no tracking, no advertising identifiers
• No network requests of any kind
• No remote code: all logic ships inside the extension package
• No account and no sign-in
• No access to your browsing history or passwords

Removing your data

Uninstalling the extension removes the stored settings and counters.

Changes to this policy

If the extension ever starts handling data differently, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy: open an issue at https://github.com/ismoilovmk/smart-block/issues.