Privacy, in plain words
Flobro is built in the European Union, has no commercial party behind it, and does not make money from your data. Here is exactly what happens and why.
This website
This website sets no cookies, so there is no banner to click away. It does count visits with PostHog, a privacy-friendly analytics tool on EU servers: how many people visit, from which country (without storing your IP address), and which buttons get clicked, like the download and donate buttons. Your language choice is stored in your own browser (localStorage) and never leaves it.
What the app shares
To learn what to improve, Flobro counts a few anonymous events using PostHog, a privacy-friendly analytics tool, on servers in the EU. What gets counted:
- that the app was opened
- that a page was floated, together with only its hostname, like youtube.com
- your system language, so we know which translations to add next
What never gets sent: full web addresses, page titles, what you watch or read, your IP address, or anything that identifies you. Each install gets a random id that says nothing about who you are.
Turning it off
In the app: Settings, then switch off "Share anonymous usage stats". In the extension: right-click the Flobro icon, choose Options, and uncheck it there. Everything keeps working exactly the same.
Why track anything at all?
Flobro is a free, open source side project. Knowing that most people float video sites, or that many users run a Dutch system, decides what gets built next. That is the whole story: usage numbers in, better app out. Nothing is sold, shared or combined with other data.
Questions?
Open an issue on the source repository, that is the one place to reach us. The code is open, so you can also just read what it does.