Privacy Policy

Last updated 18 October 2026.

The short version

This site has no server side. The tool runs in your browser. We do not receive, see, or store the links you paste or the thumbnails you download.

A browser window containing anonymous rounded shapes and a toggle switch, with a shield and padlock icon beside it — No account, no stored history, and no cookie from the tool itself — the two things that do get measured are listed below.

What we collect

No account system, no sign-in, no comment section, no contact form that submits to us, and we never see the links you paste or the thumbnails you download. The one thing that does get measured is page traffic, through Google Analytics 4 — see the next section for exactly what that means. When you paste a link it goes to YouTube, not to us.

What your browser sends out

Two requests leave your browser and go to Google's servers:

img.youtube.com — the thumbnail files themselves
www.youtube.com/oembed — the video title shown above the results

Because those requests go to Google, Google sees your IP address and which video you looked up. We do not, and we add no identifier of our own to those requests. The file you download comes from YouTube's server to your device; it does not pass through us and we keep no copy.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits. The measurement ID is G-QWF1WGDC2M. It is loaded on every page from this site.

What Google receives through it: the page you loaded, the referring page, an approximate location derived from your IP address, your browser and device type, and a random client ID stored in a first-party cookie. What it does not receive: the link you paste, the video you look up, or the thumbnail you download — those values are never sent to the analytics tag.

Google processes this data as our processor; Google's own terms and privacy policy apply to it.

Hosting

This site is served by Cloudflare Pages. As with any web host, the host can see the standard information needed to serve a page — IP address, requested URL, user agent — in its own logs. We do not run any database or logging of our own.

Cookies

The tool itself sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. The analytics tag described above does set its own first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_QWF1WGDC2M) so that repeat visits can be told apart. You can block or delete them in your browser settings, or install Google's opt-out add-on; the tool keeps working either way.

Advertising

The site carries seven advertising slots, all in one block labelled “Advertisement” that appears on the home page and on each guide page. One of them is a 300 × 250 banner served through Admitad (an affiliate network) promoting InVideo; the other six are plain text links, labelled “Also from our partners”, supplied by CJ Affiliate (Corel, Roxio, DAZ 3D) and Partnerize (WinZip, EaseUS, MindManager). The banner image and every click-through link are served by the networks' own hosts (ad.admitad.com, anrdoezrs.net, jdoqocy.com, tqlkg.com, prf.hn); this site does not host them and cannot read anything you do after clicking.

What that means for you: when the banner loads, your browser talks to ad.admitad.com directly, so Admitad sees the request, your IP address and your browser's user-agent, and it may set its own cookies or read its own identifier to attribute a sign-up. The text links are ordinary links — nothing loads from the networks until you click one, at which point that network sees the click and the page you came from. That data is handled under each network's own privacy policy, not this one. If you follow any of these links and buy or subscribe, this site may receive a commission; the price you pay does not change.

The measured content on this site is unaffected by the advertising: every number on the guide pages was requested directly against img.youtube.com and i.ytimg.com, and no advertising code sits between the page and those requests. No advertiser has ever been shown a guide page before publication, and none has asked for a change to one.

Children

This site is a general-purpose tool and is not directed at children. It has no accounts and no way for anyone to submit personal information to us.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version replaces this page. The "last updated" date at the top changes with it.

Questions

Use the address on the contact page.