Tab Out — Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 17, 2026

Tab Out is a browser extension that displays your open tabs in a dashboard. This page describes what data it handles and why.

Summary

Tab Out does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal information. Everything runs on your device.

What data the extension accesses

The extension reads the following browser data only on your device, to render the dashboard:

• Open tab metadata: URL, title, and favicon URL of each currently-open tab. Used to group tabs by domain and display them on the dashboard.
• Your "Saved for Later" list: when you save a tab, its URL, title, favicon URL, and timestamp are stored in chrome.storage.local. This never leaves your device.
• Your theme preference (light/dark/auto): stored in your browser's local storage for the extension.

External network requests

The extension makes one type of external request:

• Favicon lookups: when a site's favicon isn't cached by the browser, the extension fetches it from icons.duckduckgo.com (DuckDuckGo's public favicon service). DuckDuckGo states this service does not log individual requests. Only the hostname of the site whose icon is being requested is sent — no user identifier.

No other network requests are made. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no account system, no cloud sync.

What Tab Out does NOT do

• Does not track your browsing history
• Does not read the content of any web page
• Does not transmit tab URLs or titles to any server
• Does not use cookies
• Does not sell or share data with third parties (because there is no data to share)
• Does not contain any third-party analytics or tracking code

Permissions

Tab Out requests these browser permissions:

• tabs — read the list of open tabs, titles, and URLs for dashboard display
• activeTab — switch focus to a tab you click in the dashboard
• storage — save your "Saved for Later" list locally

Your data, your control

All data Tab Out handles is either transient (current open-tab list, regenerated each time the dashboard renders) or stored locally on your device (Saved for Later list, theme preference). You can delete either at any time:

• Remove individual saved tabs via the dismiss (×) button
• Use "Clear all" to empty the Saved for Later or Archive list
• Uninstall the extension to remove all local storage immediately

Contact

Source code and issues: github.com/birkdev/tab-out

Questions about this policy: open an issue on the repository.