Privacy

What Browse keeps, and what it never does.

Browse has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party scripts. What you follow, save and set up stays in your own browser.

What stays on your device

The places you follow, the stories, topics and words you follow or mute in News, what you save, what you have already seen (so Browse can mark what is new since your last look), how many discoveries you have explored, and your choices of layout, density and currencies are kept in your browser's storage on this device. We never receive them. Clearing this site's data in your browser erases them. A follows file you save is a file on your device, and a wall link you share carries the places on it only because you chose to share it.

What reaches our server

• Opening a page. Browse reads its public sources once for everyone and serves the result; asking for a page tells us nothing about you beyond what any web request carries.
• Looking up or following a place. The name you typed or chose, and its coordinates to two decimal places (about a kilometre), are sent to our server. It asks OpenStreetMap's Nominatim to find a typed name, then asks the US Geological Survey, the National Weather Service and the Aviation Weather Center about that area, and sends back what they said. Our server keeps none of it about you. If evidence storage is switched on, a record of what those sources said may be kept with the area rounded to about a kilometre; it never holds the words you typed or anything about who asked.
• Near you, before you choose a place. Our host, Vercel, tells our server the approximate city a request comes from, worked out from its IP address. Browse uses it, rounded to about 10 km, to show weather and alerts for that area on the Now page, says that it was detected, and offers to switch. It is not kept, and it is never served to anyone else.
• Use my location. Your browser asks your permission first, and Browse rounds the position to about a kilometre before it leaves your device.
• Pictures. Your browser asks browse.info for every picture; our server fetches it from Wikimedia, or from NASA for the globe's view of the Earth, so your browser never contacts another site to show one.
• Space. When the space station passes over the places you follow is worked out in the page; those places are not sent anywhere.
• Requests in general. To stop abuse, our server may hold a request's IP address in memory for a few minutes to limit how often one address can ask. Our host, Vercel, processes the usual request details (IP address, browser and time) to deliver and protect the site.

Links that leave Browse

A source link opens that source's own site, under its own policies; links to publishers send no referrer. Open in Yank opens yank.info, a site we also run, whose own privacy page applies there.

Changes and questions

If what Browse sends or keeps changes, this page changes first. Questions: comboventures+browse@gmail.com. See also the terms of use.

Last updated 5 October 2026