Privacy

Last updated 13 October 2026

VIDEO+ does not collect, transmit, store, or sell any personal data. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. It reads two things and nothing else: the pixels of the video you are already watching, to work out a colour, and your licence key if you buy Pro. This page explains exactly what happens to both, in plain terms.

What the extension reads

To work out what colours to display, VIDEO+ reads pixels from the video on the page you are already watching. This happens entirely inside your own browser, on your own device. Those pixels are used to compute an average colour and are then discarded. They are never uploaded, saved to disk, or sent anywhere.

What is stored

Your settings — which effects are on, the strength of each one, and any per-site profiles you create — are stored locally in your browser using Chrome's extension storage. They stay on your machine. If you sign into Chrome with sync enabled, Chrome itself may sync that data between your own devices, under Google's terms rather than mine; I never see it either way.

Network connections

In normal use, VIDEO+ makes no network requests whatsoever. There is exactly one exception:

• If you buy Pro and enter a licence key, the extension contacts api.gumroad.com once to check that the key corresponds to a real purchase. Only the licence key and the product identifier are sent. No personal information about you is transmitted, and the permission to reach that address is optional — Chrome asks you for it at the moment you enter a key, and never before.

Purchases themselves are handled entirely by Gumroad, who process the payment and hold any billing details. Gumroad's own privacy policy governs that transaction. I receive no card details at any point.

If you uninstall

When you remove VIDEO+, your browser opens one page on this website asking why. It is the one page of mine that opens without you choosing to visit it, so it is listed here. The extension itself sends nothing: the browser simply loads videoplus-1by.pages.dev/bye, and the only thing in that address is the version number you had (for example ?v=5.26.0).

Nothing is sent unless you click an answer. If you do, the page sends: the answer you clicked, anything you choose to type in the optional box, the VIDEO+ version, your operating system (for example "Windows"), your browser's language (for example "pt-BR") and a random code that links your click to the line you typed, so they can be read together. It is collected with a Google Form that only I can read; as with any web request, Google can see the request arrive. No name, email address or browsing history is sent, and the page runs no analytics. Please don't type personal details into the box.

Permissions, and why each one exists

• Storage — to remember your settings between sessions. Nothing else.
• Access to specific video sites — the extension runs only on the list of video sites it supports, so that it can see the video player and draw the effect around it. It requests no access to any other site you visit.
• api.gumroad.com (optional) — requested only if you choose to enter a Pro licence key, as described above.

DRM-protected video

VIDEO+ cannot read DRM-protected video such as Netflix, Disney+ or Prime Video, and does not attempt to. That content is rendered in a protected path that browsers deliberately place out of reach of extensions.

Children

VIDEO+ is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated date at the top of this page will change with it. If a future version of the extension were ever to collect data — which is not planned — that change would be described here before it shipped.

Contact

Questions about any of this are welcome: get in touch.