TubeMeta AI

Version 1.0Effective: October 6, 2026

TubeMeta AI is a Chrome extension that extracts metadata from the YouTube video or Short you are viewing so you can edit and copy it. On request, it can also show and copy captions as a transcript.

Summary

No account, sign-in, or server.
No analytics, tracking, or telemetry of any kind.
No uploads: extracted metadata never leaves your device.
Access to a page happens only when you explicitly invoke the extension on the active tab.

What the extension reads

When you click the TubeMeta AI toolbar icon (or press its keyboard shortcut) on a YouTube video or Short page, the extension reads the metadata of that page — such as title, description, publicly visible tags, hashtags, channel name, duration, view count, publish date, thumbnail URL, and video URL — and displays it in the popup. If you choose View transcript or Copy transcript, it reads the caption track offered by that video. Videos without available captions cannot provide a transcript.

This access is temporary and scoped to the active tab, granted by Chrome only for the invocation you perform. The extension cannot read pages in the background or on tabs you have not invoked it on.

Where your data goes

The extension ships no backend. It contains no analytics or remote logging. Extracted metadata, your edits, and copied text are never uploaded to an extension-operated server.

When you request a transcript, the current YouTube page fetches its caption track from YouTube. That request goes to YouTube and may use your existing YouTube session, just like caption requests made by the page itself. The extension does not send the transcript to another service.

The popup displays the video thumbnail, which is loaded as a normal image from YouTube's image host (ytimg.com). That request fetches an image file; it does not transmit your extracted metadata, edits, or clipboard content.

What is stored, and for how long

Data	Where	Lifetime
Extraction snapshot per tab and video	In-memory session storage (`chrome.storage.session`), extension-owned	Until the browser fully closes, the tab is closed, or you clear it
Your edits (drafts)	Same session storage	Same as above; “Reset to original” removes an edit
Transcript	Popup memory only	Until the popup closes or the video changes
Theme preference	Local extension storage (`chrome.storage.local`, not synced)	Until uninstalled or changed

Session data is never synced to your Google account and is never written to disk by the extension. The popup includes a Clear session data action that deletes the stored snapshots and drafts for the current browsing session immediately.

Clipboard

The extension writes to the clipboard only when you press a Copy button — copying a single field, the full metadata export, or a transcript. It never reads your clipboard.

Permissions and why they exist

activeTab — lets the extension read the page you explicitly invoked it on. No persistent site access is requested.
scripting — runs the packaged metadata and transcript readers inside the invoked tab.
storage — keeps session snapshots/drafts and the theme preference described above.
clipboardWrite — performs the copy actions you request.

The extension requests no host permissions and no background page access.

What the extension does not do

No collection of personal data, browsing history, or usage statistics.
No remote code: all code is packaged in the extension.
No selling or sharing of data with third parties (there is nothing collected to share).
No cookies set by the extension.

Children’s privacy

The extension collects no personal data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If a future version adds optional AI features or another service that processes user data, this policy and the store disclosures will be updated before those features ship.

Contact

Questions about this policy:

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