Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube.

10/10

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Handling

Does the policy allow personally-targeted or behavioral marketing? No

10/10

Does the service allow you to permanently delete your personal data? Yes, using an automated mechanism

5/5

Does the service allow third-party access to private personal data? No

10/10

This may come in the form of outright data sharing or by using local third-party analytics software (such as Google Analytics, which collects a plethora of user information).

Note that whether the policy allows sharing aggregated user data does not affect this question.

If the personal data is encrypted when it passes through the third-party, it does not count as third-party access (as the data is inaccessible to that party).

If personal data has been made public by, for example, posting it to a blog, it does not count as private personal information (and is therefore not considered by this question).

Score

Yes

The policy allows sharing personal data with third parties (not just critical service providers), and does not explicitly list the third parties.

Yes, all parties specified (including non-critical service providers such as advertisers)

30%

Yes, not all parties specified (but only to critical service providers)

70%

Yes, all parties specified (only to critical service providers)

80%

100%

Citation

This website does not store the visitor's user-agent or IP address and does not use fingerprinting, advertisements, or tracking of any form.

Notes

They don't even store user identifiable data.

When does the policy allow law enforcement access to personal data? N/A (no personal data to share)

5/5

Score

Always

This includes cases in which law enforcement either runs the service or has a known backdoor into (or relationship with) the service.

Not specified

When reasonably requested

60%

Only when required by a court order or subpoena

80%

N/A (no personal data to share)

The service would have no personal data to share with law enforcement.

100%

Never (special legal jurisdiction)

The service operates in a jurisdiction in which sharing data with law enforcement is never required.

100%

Citation

This website does not store the visitor's user-agent or IP address and does not use fingerprinting, advertisements, or tracking of any form.

Transparency

Does the policy outline the service's general security practices? N/A

3/3

Score

Somewhat

The policy provides only a very vague overview of its security practices.

30%

Yes

60%

Yes, including audits

"Reviews," "monitoring," etc. also count as audits.

80%

Yes, including independent audits

Independent "reviews," "monitoring," etc. also count as independent audits.

100%

N/A

The service doesn't collect any personal information.

100%

Citation

Information about a request is limited to:

the time the request was made
the status code of the response
the method of the request
the requested URL
how long it took to complete the request.

No identifying information is logged, such as the visitor's cookie, user-agent, or IP address.

Notes

But notice that if you log in, the website will store your watch history, subscription data, and user preference, which can potentially be personally identifiable.

Is the policy's history made available? Yes, with revisions or a changelog

5/5

Does the policy require users to be notified in case of a data breach? N/A

7/7

Will affected users be notified when the policy is meaningfully changed? N/A

5/5

Collection

Does the service collect personal data from third parties? No

10/10

Is it clear why the service collects the personal data that it does? Yes

10/10

Score

Somewhat

30%

Mostly

70%

Yes

100%

N/A

The service doesn't collect any personal information.

100%

Citation

Data you directly provide:
a list of session tokens for remaining logged in across devices
the last time an account was updated (to provide accurate notifications)
a list of video IDs identifying notifications from a user's subscriptions
a list of channel UCIDs the user is subscribed to
a user ID (for persistent storage of subscriptions and preferences)
a json object containing user preferences
a hashed password if applicable (not present on google accounts)
a randomly generated token for providing an RSS feed of a user's subscriptions
a list of video IDs identifying watched videos

Data you passively provide:
the time the request was made
the status code of the response
the method of the request
the requested URL
how long it took to complete the request.

Data stored in your browser:
An account token to keep you logged into the website between visits, which is sent when any page is loaded while you are logged in

Does the service allow the user to control whether personal data is collected or used for non-critical purposes? N/A (no data used for non-critical purposes)

10/10

Does the policy list the personal data it collects? N/A (no personal data is collected)

10/10

Score

The policy does not claim to not collect personal data, but it also doesn't provide any meaningful insight into the types of personal data it collects.

Only summarily

The policy uses overly vague language to provide a summary of the types of collected personal data.

30%

Yes, generally

All general categories of collected personal data are listed, though not all types of personal data are explicitly mentioned (for example, the list might use a phrase like 'such as' when listing types of personal data).

70%

Yes, exhaustively

All types of collected personal data are listed specifically

100%

N/A (no personal data is collected)

100%

Citation

This website does not store the visitor's user-agent or IP address and does not use fingerprinting, advertisements, or tracking of any form.

Last Updated

May 14, 2021

Sources

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Contributors

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