Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 13, 2026

Summary

Your content never leaves your device. Every step you write, every tutorial title, every timestamp — all of it is saved only in your browser and is never sent anywhere. We cannot read any of it.

doabl does send anonymous usage statistics: counts of actions like "the panel was opened" or "a step was created". No account, no personal data, and nothing about what you write or which videos you watch. You can turn it off in the panel, at the bottom of your tutorials list.

Your content — stays local, always

• The steps you create, tutorial titles, timestamps and the state of each step (done / completed) are saved locally through Chrome's chrome.storage.local API.
• That information never leaves your device: it isn't synced, isn't uploaded to any server, and we have no access to it.
• If you uninstall the extension, it is deleted.

Anonymous usage statistics

doabl is built by one person. Without any numbers, there is no way to know whether people can even find and use it — which is the only reason this exists.

What is sent:

• A random installation ID — generated on your device, not linked to you, your name, your email or your Google account. Its only job is to tell one installation's events apart from another's.
• Event names, from a fixed list: install, panel_open, step_created, step_done, tutorial_completed, uninstall.
• Counts: how many times you opened the panel, how many steps you created, how many days you have had doabl installed.
• The version of the extension.

What is never sent:

• The text of your steps or your tutorial titles.
• Which videos you watch — no video IDs, no URLs, no titles. doabl does not know and does not record what you are learning.
• Your browsing history, or anything at all from any page.
• Your name, email, or any account.
• Your IP address. Our server necessarily sees it in the request, like any web server; it is never stored.

The data goes to a database we run (Supabase, via Vercel). It is not sold, not shared, and not passed to any advertiser or third-party analytics tool.

How to turn it off

Open the doabl panel, go to your tutorials list, and switch off "Anonymous usage stats" at the bottom. From that moment nothing is sent — including the uninstall event described below.

If you uninstall doabl

When you remove doabl, Chrome opens a short feedback form. Answering it is entirely optional — you can close the tab and nothing more happens.

Along the way we record an uninstall event with the same three counters (panel opens, steps created, days installed). This is how we learn whether people who leave ever managed to use doabl at all — which is the single most useful thing anyone can tell us.

Permissions the extension uses, and why

• storage — save your steps and tutorials locally on your device.
• sidePanel — show the doabl panel next to the YouTube video.
• tabs — read the URL and title of the active YouTube video to associate steps with the right video, and activate or open the video's tab when you tap a step.
• scripting — inject the capture bridge into YouTube tabs that were already open before the extension started, so capturing works without reloading the page.
• Access to youtube.com — detect the playing video and read its current time to capture timestamps. Only active on youtube.com.

External connections

doabl reaches the network in exactly three ways:

• Video thumbnails, fetched directly from YouTube's servers (i.ytimg.com). Handled by YouTube/Google under their own privacy policy.
• The anonymous usage statistics described above (unless you switch them off).
• The feedback form that opens if you uninstall.

That's the complete list. Nothing else is sent anywhere, ever.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, this page will be updated with a new "last updated" date.