What stays on your device
Your history, open tabs and bookmarks, a copy of every article you read, where you stopped in long pages, your highlights and notes with their pictures, your settings, and a week's cache of pages. They are plain files in the app's own storage on Android, and in your user folders on Linux and Windows. Nobody else receives them.
Forget everything, in Settings, clears the history, the cache and the archive; your bookmarks and notes stay until you remove them. Uninstalling the app on Android removes all of it.
What leaves your device
Brevier is a browser. To show you a page, it asks the site for it, directly from your
device. The site sees what it sees from any browser: your IP address, the address you
asked for, the time, and the name Brevier/0.1. Brevier runs no scripts and
keeps no cookies, but a site can still log requests, and the pictures on a page may come
from other servers, counters among them. What they do with that is up to their own
privacy policies: Brevier does not hide you from the sites you open.
Besides the pages you open:
- Words typed into the address bar that are not an address are sent to DuckDuckGo as a search.
- Reading documentation from a repository asks GitHub, GitLab or Codeberg for its files.
- An article on Habr with comments asks habr.com for them.
- The Wayback Machine (archive.org) is asked only when you press its button on a page that is gone.
- Open in your browser and Share hand the address to the app you choose.
Backups on Android
Brevier lets Android back up its data. If backup is on in your phone's settings, Android may copy the app's files — history, bookmarks, notes, the archive — to your Google account, as it does for other apps. That is between your phone and Google, under Google's terms; turn backup off in the system settings to keep them on the phone only.
Where you got it
Stores keep their own records. If you installed Brevier from Google Play, Google shows the developer overall numbers, such as installs and ratings, and reports of crashes from phones that share usage and diagnostics with Google, under Google's privacy policy. F-Droid and GitHub, where Brevier is also published, have policies of their own. Brevier adds nothing to any of them.
Questions
Brevier is made and published by Pavel Gurov. Ask in an issue at github.com/gurov/brevier. If this page changes, the date below changes with it, and the history of every change is in the same repository.