What SubSwap Knows About You

Last updated 6 October 2026.

This page covers the SubSwap browser extension. It is on the web because the Chrome Web Store requires a policy anyone can read, not because there is much to say.

What It Stores

Two things, both in your own browser's extension storage:

• The list of YouTube channels you chose to save — the channel's name, its ID, its address and its picture.
• How far a run has got, so that closing the browser in the middle of one does not lose your place.

No email address, no name, no identifiers, no browsing history, no watch history.

Where It Goes

Nowhere. SubSwap has no backend, makes no network requests of its own, and has no analytics. Everything it works out stays on your machine, and nobody — including me — can see it. The one exception is the tip jar, below, and nothing happens there unless you press the button yourself.

If you press Save to a file, your browser writes that file to your computer. What you do with it after that is up to you.

What It Can See, And When

SubSwap can read pages on youtube.com and nowhere else. It reads your subscriptions page when you ask it to save your list, and it reads a channel's page to check whether you are already subscribed before it does anything there. It does not watch what you browse, and it does nothing at all until you press a button.

No Google Account Access

SubSwap does not use the YouTube Data API, does not ask you to sign in, and never sees your Google password or any access token. It works with the page you are already signed into, in your own browser, the same as if you clicked it yourself.

The Tip Jar

The Support My Work section has a form on it for leaving a tip. It is entirely optional, nothing in SubSwap is locked behind it, and the extension behaves exactly the same whether you use it or not.

If you press Chip In, a new tab opens and the amount you picked is sent to tanookistudios.com, which hands you to Stripe to take the payment. That request carries the amount and nothing else — no list of channels, no progress, no identifier, nothing about your YouTube account. Card details go to Stripe and are covered by Stripe's privacy policy; I never see them, and no record of who gave money is kept anywhere outside Stripe.

When You Uninstall It

Removing SubSwap deletes everything it stored, because all of it lived in your own browser. Chrome then opens one page here — a short, anonymous form asking what went wrong. By that point the extension is gone and nothing of it is running, so the only thing that could ever be sent is an answer you choose to type.

The only thing carried to that page is which version you had, so that "it broke in 1.0.4" is a useful answer. The form has no email box, no name box and no identifier of any kind, and the table behind it has no column for one. Close the tab and nothing at all is sent.

Third Parties

Stripe, and only if you choose to leave a tip, as above. Nothing is sold, shared or used for advertising, because nothing is collected in the first place. There are no third-party libraries, trackers or scripts inside the extension — the tip form is plain HTML that posts when you press it, which is why no Stripe code runs inside SubSwap at all.

Getting Your Data Deleted

Delete a saved list inside the extension and it is gone right away. Uninstall the extension and your browser removes everything it stored. There is no copy anywhere else for me to delete, and nothing for you to request.

Children

SubSwap is not aimed at children and collects nothing from anyone, at any age.

Changes

If this ever changes — and it would only change if the extension gained a feature that needed it — the new policy appears at this address with a new date, and the change is described in the extension's release notes.

Who To Contact

Questions about any of this can go through the contact page.