Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 27, 2026

This policy explains what the MediaScribe Chrome extension and the website at mediascribe.app do with data. The short version: there is no account, no tracking, and nothing about you is sold or shared. The extension reads the captions YouTube already provides for the video you’re watching, in your own browser.

What the extension does

The extension shows the transcript of a YouTube video next to the player. To do that, it reads the caption data that YouTube already serves for the video on the page you have open — entirely within your browser. It does not record audio, it does not transcribe anything itself, and it does not send the video, the transcript, or your browsing activity to us or to any third party.

Information we do not collect

• No account or sign-in — you never log in, and we never ask for personal details.
• No personal data — we don’t collect your name, email, location, or identity.
• No browsing history — the extension does not track which videos or pages you visit.
• No analytics or trackers — there are no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts in the extension.
• No selling or sharing — we have no user data to sell, and we don’t.

What is stored on your device

The extension saves a few small preferences using Chrome’s built-in storage so the tool behaves the way you left it:

• whether the transcript panel is collapsed or expanded;
• whether timestamps are shown;
• a counter used to decide when to show an optional “rate the extension” prompt.

These are non-personal settings. They live on your device and, if you have Chrome Sync turned on, Chrome may sync them across your own signed-in browsers — that is Chrome’s feature, not ours, and the data never reaches our servers. Removing the extension clears them.

Permissions, and why each is needed

• Access to youtube.com (https://*.youtube.com/*) — so the extension can read the caption data and show the transcript on the watch page. It runs only on YouTube; it has no access to any other site.
• storage — to save the small preferences listed above.
• scripting — to place the transcript panel into the YouTube page you’re viewing.

That is the complete list. The extension requests no other permissions and no access to your other tabs, files, or data.

Network requests

When you open a video, the extension fetches the caption data from YouTube’s own servers (youtube.com), the same data the player uses. Nothing is sent to a server of ours; the extension has no backend.

The transcript tool on this website

Separately from the extension, the tool at mediascribe.app lets you paste a link to get a transcript. Because a web page can’t read YouTube’s captions directly, that request passes through a stateless proxy that fetches the captions and returns the text. The proxy does not require an account, does not store your transcripts, and does not keep a history of the videos you look up; it caches caption text briefly only to avoid repeat work. The website itself uses no third-party advertising or tracking.

Uninstall feedback

If you remove the extension, Chrome may open a short page asking — optionally — why you left. Answering is entirely voluntary; if you choose to share a reason it helps us improve the product, and it isn’t tied to your identity.

Children

The extension and site are general-purpose tools and are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect any information from children.

Affiliation

This is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. “YouTube” is a trademark of Google LLC.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email gaydukovant@gmail.com.