When you preview a link

unboxx reads link addresses and link text on the pages you visit, and responds when you hover, focus or click a link. Email addresses, phone numbers and email subjects in link targets are shown in the card without any network request.

To build a preview, unboxx requests the page from your browser and follows its redirects, without sending cookies or a referrer. The destination and any redirect service receive that request, including your IP address. A preview may also request the page's image and icon. Logout and unsubscribe links are never loaded in the background.

Live preview is the default. It loads the destination in a sandboxed frame inside the card, much like a visit, so that page can make its normal requests and may use cookies, depending on your browser settings. So that pages can load inside the card, unboxx removes their frame-blocking response headers for that preview frame only. You can choose Site image, Screenshot or None in settings instead.

The optional Load ahead on small pages setting, off by default, requests previews for the outside links on pages with 25 links or fewer as soon as the page loads.

What Chrome stores

• Settings, paused sites and an optional Google Safe Browsing API key. Chrome may sync these across your signed-in devices.
• Saved previews on this device, for up to 3 days.
• If recent history is on, up to 50 recently previewed links with their titles, the sites you found them on and the times, on this device.
• Usage counts on this device, such as how many trackers were removed.

History is never kept in incognito windows. You can clear history and saved previews in settings.

Optional features that send a link elsewhere

Both are off until you turn them on in settings.

• Screenshot previews send the link to WordPress mShots, which returns a picture of the page.
• Google Safe Browsing sends each previewed link, its final destination and your API key to Google, to check them against Google's lists of malware and phishing sites. Chrome may sync the key across your signed-in devices.

Other requests

For YouTube links, unboxx may request the video's title and thumbnail from YouTube.

The details section of a card has buttons to look a link up on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or on VirusTotal. They open that site in a new tab with the link only when you press them.

Settings includes optional links to the Chrome Web Store reviews page and a Stripe contribution page. They open only when you select them. Stripe handles payment details outside unboxx, and no extension feature requires a contribution.

We do not receive your browsing history or settings, and we do not sell your data or use it for advertising. Our use of information received from Google APIs follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

This website

This website has no analytics and sets no cookies. Its fonts, images and trailer video are served from this site. The link cleaner on the home page runs in your browser and does not send the links you paste anywhere. The Chrome Web Store, GitHub and YouTube links open those sites only when you select them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with an updated date.