Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 5, 2026

SkipSeen (“the extension”) skips YouTube videos you have already watched during autoplay. This policy explains what data the extension handles and how.

What data the extension handles

To do its job, SkipSeen stores the following locally in your browser, using the browser's extension storage API (the same in Chrome and Firefox):

• Watched-video history — for each YouTube video you've watched: its ID, title and channel name, how much of it you watched, and when. Used to decide which videos to skip and to show them in the popup. It keeps the 5,000 most recent videos.
• Settings — your on/off preference, watched threshold, playlist option, whether to show the skip notice, and your list of never-skip channels.
• Session skip data — a temporary count and log (video ID and title) of videos skipped during your current browsing session.
• Usage counters — a running total of skips and whether you've dismissed the “rate SkipSeen” prompt, so the prompt appears at most once.

What we do not do

• The extension does not collect, transmit, or upload any of this data to any server.
• The extension does not sell or share your data with any third party.
• The extension does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
• The extension does not require an account or ask for any personal information.

All extension data stays on your device. If you uninstall the extension or use the “Clear history” button in the popup, the stored data is removed.

Pages the extension opens

• When you install it, the extension opens a welcome page that ships inside the extension. It loads nothing from the internet.
• When you uninstall it, your browser opens skipseen.com/uninstalled, which asks (optionally) why you left. The extension sends nothing; the only information in that page's address is the version number you had installed. If you choose an answer, that answer and the version number are recorded with Vercel Web Analytics, described under “This website” below. Your watch history is deleted by the browser when you uninstall and is never part of this.

One minor exception: the popup shows a small thumbnail image for each recently‑skipped video, loaded directly from YouTube's public image CDN (i.ytimg.com) using the video's ID. No personal data is sent — these are the same videos you were already watching on YouTube — and nothing about your history is uploaded anywhere.

This website

The extension and this website (skipseen.com) are separate. Nothing described in this section involves the extension, your watched-video history, or anything you do on YouTube.

The website uses two analytics services to understand how many people visit these pages and how they found them:

• Vercel Web Analytics — cookieless. It counts page views and general referrer and device information in aggregate, and collects no personal information.
• Google Analytics — sets first-party cookies (such as _ga) to tell new visitors from returning ones, and records pages viewed, the site that referred you, approximate location (derived from your IP address, which Google does not store), browser and device type. This data is processed by Google under Google's privacy policy. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or by blocking cookies for this site.

Neither service is used for advertising, and this website does not sell or share visitor data.

Permissions

• storage — to save your watched-video history and settings on your device.
• Access to youtube.com — so the extension can detect the current video and skip already-watched videos during autoplay. No data from these pages is collected or transmitted.

Contact

SkipSeen and this website are operated by Keenan Kaufman. Questions about this policy? Email keenanlkaufman@gmail.com.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above will be revised.