Ancient

Privacy Policy

The short version: Ancient does its work on your machine. Nothing about the pages you visit leaves your browser. The one thing that does is a licence key, and only if you buy Pro.

What stays on your device

All filtering happens locally. The extension ships with its filter lists, element-hiding rules and scriptlets inside the package, and matches them against pages as you browse. That means:

• The pages you visit are never transmitted. Not the URLs, not the page contents, not the domains.
• No analytics and no telemetry. There is no reporting of what you block, what you allow, or how often you use it.
• No advertising identifier and no device fingerprint. The extension does not read or send anything about your hardware, screen, fonts or installed software.

Stored locally, on your machine only, in the browser's extension storage:

Stored	Why
Your settings and feature toggles	So the extension behaves the way you left it.
Your allowlist of sites	So sites you have turned blocking off for stay off.
Your licence key and token, if you have Pro	So you do not have to enter it again.
Per-tab and total blocked counts	For the number on the toolbar badge.

Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it.

The one thing that leaves your browser

If you activate a Pro licence, the extension contacts the licence server to check that the key is real and has not been revoked. This is the only network request the extension makes on its own behalf. It sends:

Sent	What it actually is
key	The licence key you typed in.
installId	A random 16-byte value generated on your machine. It identifies an installation, not a person, and it is not derived from anything about your computer.
fingerprint	A truncated SHA-256 hash of your licence key. Despite the name it says nothing about your device — it is derived entirely from the key.
product, version	The fixed string ancient and the extension's version number.

The server is hosted on Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare may log the IP address of requests as part of operating the service, under Cloudflare's own privacy policy. We do not use those logs to identify anyone.

What the licence server stores

So that a licence can be honoured and abuse can be stopped, the server keeps:

• The licence key and whether it is revoked.
• The random install id of each device a key has been activated on, and when it was last seen. This is how a key is limited to the number of devices you paid for.
• An email address, only if you gave one when buying. It is used to send your key and to answer support questions. It is never sold or used for marketing.
• A record of the sale (a transaction reference and the email above) so a purchase can be looked up later.
• Failed admin sign-in attempts, with the IP address, to rate-limit them.

That is the entire database. There is no profile of your browsing, because the server is never told about it.

Payments

Card details are handled entirely by the payment provider. They never reach the extension or the licence server, and are never stored by us.

What we never do

• We do not sell or rent any data to anyone.
• We do not share data with advertisers or data brokers.
• We do not inject ads, affiliate links or sponsored content into pages.
• We do not track you across sites.
• We do not use your data to determine creditworthiness or for lending.

Your choices

• Do not buy Pro. The extension then never contacts the licence server at all, and no data leaves your browser by any route.
• Point it at your own server. The licence server address is a setting. If you run your own, no data goes anywhere near ours.
• Ask for deletion. Email us and we will delete your licence record, including the email address and the install ids. Note that this also invalidates the licence.
• Uninstall. Everything stored locally goes with it.

Children

The extension is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the date at the top changes and the change is described in the extension's release notes. Continuing to use the extension after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or a deletion request: our Discord.