TubeDeck – Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 3, 2026

TubeDeck is a Chrome browser extension that helps you organize your YouTube subscriptions into custom categories and track channel activity. This policy explains what data the extension accesses, how it is used, and how it is stored.

Data We Access

TubeDeck accesses the following information:

• Your YouTube subscription list (channel names, URLs, and avatars), read from youtube.com/feed/channels using your authenticated browser session.
• Publicly available channel statistics (subscriber count, upload frequency, last upload date), fetched directly from YouTube channel pages.
• Your TubeDeck preferences and category configuration.

How Data Is Stored

All data is stored locally on your device using the browser's built-in chrome.storage.local API. No data is transmitted to any external server, database, or third party. TubeDeck has no backend.

How Data Is Used

The data is used exclusively to:

• Display your subscription list inside the TubeDeck sidebar.
• Organize channels into categories you create.
• Show channel activity indicators (active, slow, or inactive).
• Track which videos you have already seen.

Background Tab Usage

When you import your subscriptions, TubeDeck opens a temporary background tab pointing to youtube.com/feed/channels. This tab is used to read your subscription list, which requires your authenticated YouTube session and cannot be obtained with a simple network request. The tab is automatically closed once the import is complete.

Data Sharing

TubeDeck does not share, sell, or transmit any data to third parties. All information remains on your local device.

Data Deletion

You can delete all TubeDeck data at any time by removing the extension from Chrome (chrome://extensions), which clears all locally stored data. Alternatively, you can clear data from within the extension settings.

Permissions Explained

• storage – to save your categories, channels, and preferences locally.
• tabs – to open a temporary background tab for reading your subscription list.
• scripting – to inject the sidebar UI into YouTube pages and to read subscription data from the background tab.
• host_permissions (youtube.com) – to run the sidebar on YouTube and to fetch public channel statistics.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy, please open an issue on the TubeDeck GitHub repository.