LineskipPrivacy Policy
Lineskip is a Chrome extension that shows a YouTube video's transcript and description in Chrome's Side Panel, and lets you skip to any moment by clicking its timestamp. It is published by Next AI Business.
In short: Lineskip does not collect, sell, share, or transmit your personal data. It has no account system, no analytics, no advertising, and no servers of its own.
1. What Lineskip reads
When you open the Side Panel on a YouTube watch page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…), Lineskip reads the following in your browser:
- the video's title, channel name, description, duration, chapters, and caption (transcript) tracks, taken from the page's own data and from YouTube's caption requests;
- the video's current playback time, so it can highlight the current section and seek when you click a timestamp.
This information is processed locally to display it in the panel. It is not sent to the developer or to any third party.
2. Network requests
Lineskip makes requests only to youtube.com, the same site you are already using, in order to load the video's captions. If you choose a machine-translated language, YouTube performs the translation and the request goes to YouTube. Lineskip has no other network destinations and does not contact any server operated by the developer.
3. What Lineskip stores on your device
| Settings | Theme, text size, spacing, section length, recent translation languages, and the follow-video choice. Stored in the panel's local storage. |
|---|---|
| Short load history | Up to 20 entries (time, video ID, result, and which loading method worked), stored in chrome.storage.local. Used only to show whether loading has been failing recently. |
This data stays on your device. It is deleted when you remove the extension or clear its data in Chrome.
4. Problem reports
The “Report a problem” button copies a technical report to your clipboard and opens a pre-titled issue page on GitLab in a new tab. The report contains the extension version, your browser description, the video link, which loading method ran, error messages, and which page elements were found. It does not contain transcript text.
Nothing is sent unless you paste the report into the issue page and submit it yourself. Anything you post there is handled under GitLab's own privacy policy and may be public.
5. Permissions and why they are needed
sidePanel | Shows the transcript in Chrome's Side Panel. |
|---|---|
tabs | Reads the active tab's address to tell whether it is a YouTube watch page, and follows tab and video changes. |
scripting | Attaches Lineskip's scripts to YouTube tabs that were already open when the extension was installed or updated. |
storage | Saves the settings and short load history described above. |
Access to https://www.youtube.com/* | Reads the video data and captions on YouTube pages and sends seek commands to the player. |
6. Remote code
Lineskip does not download or run code from the internet. All code ships inside the extension package.
7. This website
This website (not the extension) sets no cookies, loads no external fonts or scripts, and has no analytics. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, may process standard server logs such as IP addresses to deliver the site.
8. Children
Lineskip is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date. If a future version of Lineskip changes what data is handled, this policy will be updated before that version is released.
10. Not affiliated with YouTube
Lineskip is an independent extension. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.
11. Contact
Questions about this policy: contact@nextaibusiness.com