Privacy policy

Last updated 12 August 2026

Grabbit does not collect, transmit, or store your personal data. There is no server to send it to. That is not a policy decision so much as an architectural one: the extension has no backend.

What is collected

Nothing. Specifically, and to be unambiguous about each category:

No personally identifiable information.
No health, financial, or authentication information.
No personal communications.
No location data.
No browsing history, and no record of the pages you visit.
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or usage statistics.

What is stored on your own machine

Two things, both local, neither leaving your computer:

Your settings. The filename pattern and the folder you chose. These use Chrome's storage.sync, so they follow your Chrome profile if you have Chrome sync switched on. In that case they are handled by Google under Chrome's own sync arrangement, not by us.
A count of files saved. A single number, shown in the popup. Stored locally and never sent anywhere.
Your save library. When you save something, Grabbit records what it was: the file's address, the post it came from, the account name, the filename, the size, and the date. This is what lets the extension search your saves, jump back to the original post, and warn you before saving the same thing twice.

It is stored in your browser's own database on your machine. It is never uploaded, and there is nowhere for it to be uploaded to. You can read the whole thing in the popup's Library tab, delete any single entry, or wipe all of it with one button.

Uninstalling the extension removes all of it.

Network requests

Grabbit makes exactly one kind of network request: fetching the image or video file you asked it to save, from the site you are already on. That request goes to that site's own content servers, and it happens only when you click a save button.

There are no requests to any server operated by the developer, because none exists.

Permissions, and why each one is needed

downloads: Writes the file to your Downloads folder. This is the whole point.
storage: Remembers your filename pattern and folder between sessions.
activeTab and scripting: Lets the popup list the media on the tab you are looking at, and lets the extension reconnect to a tab that was open before it was installed.
Access to the nine supported sites: Reads the page to find images and video, and fetches those files from inside the page so the site's cookies and referrer are attached. Media servers reject requests without them. The sites are listed one by one in the manifest rather than requesting access to all websites, so the extension is technically incapable of reading anything else.

Third parties

None. No data is sold, shared, or transferred to anyone, because none is collected. There are no third-party libraries, no CDN calls, and no remotely hosted code in the extension.

Children

Grabbit is not directed at children under 13 and collects no data from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated date above changes with it, and the change ships alongside the extension version that caused it.

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