PodSaid on YouTube — browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Chromium-based browsers.
Effective 2026-07-08
This policy describes what the PodSaid on YouTube browser extension does and does not do with your data. It is written to be short and readable because the extension itself is intentionally minimal.
If you use PodSaid on the web at podsaid.com or on a tenant subdomain (e.g. clearcreek.podsaid.com), that experience is governed by the main site's privacy policy — this document is scoped to the browser extension.
The extension mounts a PodSaid search + chat widget in a browser side panel when you visit a YouTube channel or watch page that PodSaid has indexed. That is its single purpose. When you visit an unindexed channel, the widget shows an empty state and makes no further network requests.
The extension makes exactly three kinds of outbound requests:
GET https://api.podsaid.com/v1/lookup/youtube-channel/{channelId} — anonymous, unauthenticated request that checks whether the current YouTube channel is indexed by PodSaid. Only the channel ID (a public YouTube identifier) is transmitted.GET https://www.youtube.com/@{handle} — when you visit a YouTube channel by its handle, the extension fetches that channel's public page to resolve the handle to a channel ID. This is the same request your browser already makes to render the page; the extension makes it a second time from the service worker.GET https://widget.podsaid.com/v1/widgets.iife.js — anonymous fetch of the widget's JavaScript bundle from PodSaid's CDN.If you type a question into the widget's search or chat input and submit it, that query is sent to api.podsaid.com — the same as if you visited podsaid.com directly. Search queries and chat prompts are not transmitted until you explicitly submit them.
youtube.com.window.ytInitialPlayerResponse.videoDetails.channelId, which is the channel identifier YouTube itself embeds in the page.youtube.com.The extension uses chrome.storage.session — a session-scoped storage area that is automatically cleared when you restart your browser. It stores two things:
Neither is transmitted anywhere. Both disappear when you close and reopen the browser.
When you uninstall the extension, Chrome (and Firefox) opens a thank-you page at install.podsaid.com/goodbye.html. This is a static HTML page. No uninstall event, no reason, no identifier is transmitted. The page is served over HTTPS from Cloudflare's edge; standard web-server logs (IP address, user agent) apply exactly as they do to any other webpage you visit.
The extension itself uses no third-party services. The widget's search and chat features are backed by PodSaid's own API at api.podsaid.com, which in turn calls large-language-model providers (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) via OpenRouter. Your search and chat inputs are transmitted to those providers as part of answering your question. PodSaid does not retain conversations tied to your identity, because there is no identity to tie them to.
When the extension calls api.podsaid.com, PodSaid's servers record standard web-server access logs (timestamp, IP address, user agent, request URL) for a limited retention window used to diagnose service problems and enforce rate limits. These logs are not tied to any user account and are not shared with third parties.
The extension does not collect any personal information from any user, including children under 13. It has no user account model and does not knowingly identify individual users.
If this policy changes materially, the effective date at the top of this page will be updated and the previous version will remain available in the git history of the source document. We do not send notification emails; because the extension does not collect email addresses, we have no way to.
Uninstall the extension from your browser's extensions page. Chrome and Firefox clear the extension's session storage and revoke its permissions automatically. Nothing persists on your device after uninstall.