Browser Extension Privacy Policy

This policy covers the CherryBrew browser extension, listed as “CherryBrew: Hide Shorts, Reels & Ads”, for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari on Mac. It comes from MarcoPolo (LuciCo LLC). It hides Shorts, Reels, recommendation feeds and ads on the pages you open. The CherryBrew phone app has its own privacy policy.

In short:

• Filtering and ad blocking run on your computer. We never see the sites or pages you visit.
• The extension sends anonymous diagnostics to Google Analytics so we can find and fix problems. It’s on by default, and you can turn it off at any time.
• If you connect the extension to CherryBrew on your phone, it checks your membership with our account service.
• We don’t sell your data, show ads or use advertising identifiers.

What stays on your computer

The extension needs access to the pages you open. That’s how it hides Shorts and Reels and blocks ads, and it’s why your browser says it can “read and change” your data on websites. It uses that access only inside your browser. Nothing it reads from a page is sent anywhere.

• Filter rules and block lists. They’re built into the extension (uBlock Origin Lite’s rule sets, including EasyList and EasyPrivacy). They aren’t fetched from a server while you browse; new rules arrive with extension updates from your browser’s store.
• Your settings. These include which switches are on, the sites where you turned ad blocking off, daily limits and the scroll nudge, time counted toward a limit, and whether this browser is connected to your phone.

These are kept in your browser’s extension storage. If you’re signed in to your browser with sync on, your browser may copy your CherryBrew settings to your other computers. That sync is run by Google, Mozilla, Microsoft or Apple, not by us. Removing the extension deletes its data from that browser.

Anonymous diagnostics

To spot broken filters and errors after a site changes, the extension sends a small amount of technical data to Google Analytics, which processes it for us. We copy it once a day into our Google BigQuery project to analyze it. We use it only to find and fix problems and to understand which features are used.

What’s sent

• Identifiers. A random installation ID that the extension creates, and a 6-digit Diagnostics ID that the extension menu shows, so you can quote it when you report a problem.
• Setup. The extension version, browser (for example “Chrome”), operating system (for example “Mac”), whether ad blocking is on, and whether this browser is connected to a CherryBrew membership (yes or no).
• Events.
  • The extension was installed or updated.
  • A daily summary of which switches are on and whether ad blocking’s rule lists are loaded.
  • You opened the menu or changed a setting.
  • A daily limit was reached or extended, or a scroll nudge was shown.
  • The result of connecting to your phone and of membership checks.
• Filter health. For YouTube, Instagram, Reddit and X only, once a day: the type of page (such as home, search or watch), how many of those pages the extension checked, and how many had nothing to hide. A sudden run of pages with nothing hidden tells us a filter broke.
• Errors. Which part of the extension failed, the error type and a short message, with web addresses and site names removed. At most 20 a day.

What’s never sent

• Web addresses, page titles, search terms or anything shown on a page.
• The names of other sites you visit. Errors on any other site are reported only as “other”.
• Your name, email, CherryBrew account, phone connection token or passwords.

Diagnostics aren’t linked to your CherryBrew account, and we don’t combine them with account records. As with any web request, Google receives your IP address. Google Analytics uses it to estimate your country and region. IP addresses don’t appear in the reports or the daily copy we receive. See Google’s privacy policy.

Turning it off

Click the CherryBrew icon in your toolbar and switch off “Share anonymous diagnostics” at the bottom. In Firefox you can also untick it when installing, or change it later under Add-ons and themes → CherryBrew → Permissions (“Technical and interaction data”). When it’s off, nothing more is sent, anything not yet sent is deleted, and every feature keeps working.

Connecting to CherryBrew on your phone

This step is optional. It turns on member extras such as daily limits, and you can connect by QR code, by typing a code, or with “Send to my computer” in the phone app.

• The extension sends our account service (Supabase, operated for NeoMarcoPolo) a label for this browser, such as “Chrome on Mac”. Your phone shows that label under Connected computers.
• The service stores the label, a hashed connection token, and the link to your CherryBrew account or Google Play purchase. It also records when the connection was made, last checked and removed.
• About every 6 hours the extension sends its connection token to check that your membership is active.
• A “Send to my computer” link carries a one-time code after the “#” in the address. Browsers don’t send that part to our website. The extension reads the code and removes it from the address bar.
• Like any web service, our account service and its host see your IP address with each request and may keep it briefly in server logs.

You can disconnect from the extension menu or from Connected computers on your phone. A removed connection stops working right away.

What CherryBrew doesn’t do

• It doesn’t sell or share personal information, show ads, or use advertising identifiers.
• It doesn’t read or keep your passwords, messages, form entries, keystrokes or browsing history.
• It doesn’t run code from the internet. All of its code ships inside the extension and goes through each browser store’s review.

Third parties

The sites you visit collect data under their own privacy policies. Blocking trackers reduces what they collect, but CherryBrew doesn’t control those sites. Google processes diagnostics as described above. The Chrome Web Store, Firefox Add-ons, Microsoft Edge Add-ons and Apple handle installs and updates under their own terms.

Retention

We keep diagnostics for as long as they help us find and fix problems, within Google Analytics’ retention settings and in our BigQuery copy. We keep connection records while a connection is active, and afterwards only as long as security, support or legal obligations need them.

Your rights

• Delete diagnostics: email us your Diagnostics ID from the extension menu (note it before you remove the extension). We’ll delete the diagnostics tied to it.
• Delete a connection or your account: disconnect as described above, or follow the CherryBrew account and data deletion steps.
• If you are in the EEA, UK or Switzerland (GDPR): we send diagnostics based on our legitimate interest in keeping the extension working, and you can object at any time by turning them off. You also have the right to access, correct, port, restrict or delete your personal data, and to complain to your local data-protection authority.
• If you are in California (CCPA/CPRA): you have the right to know what we collect and to request deletion. CherryBrew doesn’t sell or share personal information in the legal sense of those terms.

Children

CherryBrew isn’t directed to children under 13 (or 16 in the EEA and UK). We don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has used the extension, email us and we’ll delete any data tied to it.

International transfers

Google and Supabase may process data in the United States and other countries, under standard contractual clauses and, where applicable, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Changes to this policy

If we change what the extension collects or how we use it, we’ll update this page and the “Last updated” date. For material changes, the extension will tell you before the change applies.

Contact

Privacy questions, deletion requests, or anything we got wrong:

Email: luke@neomarcopolo.co

Operator: LuciCo LLC, doing business as MarcoPolo.