Patience collects no personal data. This page says exactly what it does store, the one request it makes, and what that request unavoidably reveals.
Last updated 12 November 2026.
The short version. Patience has no accounts, no analytics and no telemetry. It never sends us anything about you, what you watch, or what ads you see. It makes one network request — for its own configuration file — and that request is not logged.
Two things, both inside your own browser:
Whether Patience is on, whether autoskip is on, the overlay colour, the timer colour, size and font, and any sites you have switched it off for.
These are saved using your browser's own settings-sync storage. If you have browser sync enabled, your browser may copy them between your own devices through your Google or Mozilla account, exactly as it does your bookmarks. That is a feature of your browser, not of Patience: we never receive these values and have no way to read them.
The list of which page elements identify an ad on each supported site. This is public configuration data — the same file for every user — stored locally so the extension works offline. It contains nothing about you.
One request, and only this one:
| Request | GET https://patience-extension.com/rules/v2/rules.json |
|---|---|
| When | On install, on browser start, and roughly every 8 hours |
| Contains | Nothing we add. It is a plain request for a public file |
| Why | So a broken selector can be fixed in minutes instead of waiting days for a store review |
Like every request any browser makes to any server, it necessarily reveals your IP address, the approximate time, and your browser's user-agent string to the server answering it. We cannot change that; it is how the internet works. What we can change is whether we keep it, so:
| Permission | What it is for |
|---|---|
storage | Saving your settings and the cached rules file, as described above. |
activeTab | So the popup can tell you whether the tab you are looking at is a supported site. The address is read in the popup and never leaves it. This is deliberately narrower than the tabs permission, which would allow reading every tab. |
alarms | Scheduling the 8-hourly rules refresh in a way that survives the browser suspending background work. |
patience-extension.com/rules/* | Fetching the rules file. Scoped to that one path rather than the whole site, so the extension cannot read anything else even from our own server. |
Patience also runs on the pages of the sites it supports — currently YouTube and Prime Video — because covering an ad means drawing on the page the ad is playing on. It reads the video player's state to tell whether an ad is running. It does not read page text, form fields, cookies or credentials, and it sends nothing from those pages anywhere.
No cookies, no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no third-party fonts, scripts or embeds — so visiting this page makes no request to anybody but this server. The server keeps a standard access log for the site's own pages, which rotates.
Patience is not directed at children and collects no personal data from anyone, of any age.
If this policy changes, the updated version appears on this page with a new date. Any change that altered what the extension sends would also require a new version to pass store review, so it could not reach you silently.