Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 2026 · Applies to: Stop the Slop Extension

TL;DR Summary: Stop the Slop is privacy-first and open source. We do not collect personal identification, browsing histories, IP tracking logs, or analytics cookies. The extension only processes the YouTube video transcripts you inspect to calculate AI detection scores.

1. Information We Process

To perform AI script detection, the extension extracts the publicly accessible transcript or subtitle track of the YouTube video currently open in your active tab.

YouTube Video ID & Transcript: Sent securely to our backend analysis API to calculate linguistic AI probability scores and highlight repetitive AI patterns.
No Personal Data: We do not collect names, email addresses, IP addresses, search history, browsing history outside of YouTube, or Google account information.

2. Chrome & Browser Permissions Explained

When installing the extension, your browser may prompt you about the following permissions:

tabs / activeTab: Used strictly to check if the currently focused browser tab is a YouTube video URL (e.g. youtube.com/watch?v=...) and retrieve its video ID.
storage: Used locally on your device to store your theme preferences (dark/light/system) and cache recent analysis scores to minimize repeated network calls.
scripting & host_permissions: https://www.youtube.com/*: Required to inspect captions and render the in-player detection badge directly on the YouTube video interface.

3. Third-Party Services & Infrastructure

The extension communicates with a lightweight backend service hosted on Cloudflare Workers:

AI Linguistic Analysis: Analysis is executed via verified AI language scoring APIs (Sapling AI) to evaluate text perplexity and style markers.
Caching: Analysis scores are cached anonymously by YouTube Video ID in Cloudflare D1 to speed up response times for all users and reduce server strain. No user identifiers are associated with cached results.

4. Data Sharing & Monetization

We do not sell, rent, monetize, or trade any user data to third parties, advertisers, or data brokers. The extension is 100% free and open-source under the MIT license.

5. Open Source Transparency

The entire codebase for the browser extension and backend worker is public. You can inspect, audit, or verify the exact code running in the extension on our GitHub repository.

6. Contact & Inquiries

If you have any questions or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy or the extension's data practices, please open an issue on our GitHub repository:

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