Privacy policy

What the extension does

Grabbit Video helps you find and download video and audio from web pages you visit. To do that, it inspects the network requests and media players on those pages to detect video and audio (for example MP4 files and HLS or DASH video). This inspection happens only locally inside your browser. Nothing about the pages you visit is sent to us or to any third party.

What is stored, and where

• Detected media. The URLs of detected media and the title of the page they were found on are kept in your browser’s local extension storage (chrome.storage) so the popup can list them. They are cleared when the tab is closed or navigates to another page.
• Preview images. Small preview images of detected videos, kept only in your browser and cleared with the tab’s list.
• Settings. Your preferences (such as default format, capture limits, or list sort order) are stored locally in chrome.storage and persist until you change them or remove the extension.

None of this data leaves your device. Removing the extension deletes it.

Requests the extension makes

When a video is detected, Grabbit Video may contact the website that hosts it to read the file size. When you click Download, it contacts that website again to fetch the video.

• To show a preview, the popup may also load the video’s poster image or its first seconds from that website.
• These requests go only to the website that hosts the video.
• They include your normal cookies for that site, just like a regular browser request.
• They may include the page address (Referer) the site expects.
• Nothing is sent to the developer.

Downloads

When you download something, the file is fetched directly from the website that serves it and saved to your computer. Grabbit Video does not route downloads through any server of its own; there is no Grabbit Video server.

Third parties

Grabbit Video contains no third-party code that collects data. The only third-party link is the optional donation page (Ko-fi). It opens only when you click a “Support” button, and any information you choose to give there is handled under Ko-fi’s own privacy policy.

Permissions

The extension asks for access to the sites you visit so it can detect media on them, and for the downloads permission so it can save files you choose. These permissions are used solely to provide that feature.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published with a new effective date. Material changes will be noted in the extension’s release notes.

Contact

Questions or concerns? Get in touch:

• Email: grabbitvideo@proton.me
• The Support tab on Grabbit Video’s Chrome Web Store listing.