Privacy Policy
The short version. Giggatory runs entirely inside your browser.
It has no backend server. It does not send your data anywhere, does not use analytics or trackers,
and does not sell or share data with anyone. Everything it stores lives in
chrome.storage.local on your own device.
1. Who operates Giggatory
Giggatory is an independent open-source project. Contact and issue reporting is via the GitHub repository.
2. What the extension processes
Giggatory processes the following, all locally:
| Data | Where it comes from | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Your preferences, country, languages, skills, minimum hourly rate, enabled sources, theme, language, notification rules | You enter it in Settings | chrome.storage.local on your device. Never transmitted. |
| Opportunity listings, title, reward, estimated time, category, link | Public sources you enable (Reddit public JSON, Hacker News API, Remotive API, RSS/Atom feeds) | Fetched directly by your browser from those sources, scored locally, stored locally. |
| Browser-assisted snapshots, a read-only list of items visible on a platform dashboard you opened (e.g. Prolific, UserTesting) | Only if you opt in per platform and grant the host permission. A content script reads the already-rendered page. | chrome.storage.local. Discarded when older than two hours or when you turn the source off. |
| Your scan history and self-reported earnings (optional) | Generated as you use the extension / entered by you | chrome.storage.local. Used only to draw your own charts and compute a suggested tip. |
3. What Giggatory never does
- It does not collect or store passwords, cookies, authentication tokens or any credential.
- It does not log into any platform or act on your behalf. It only opens the original site in a new tab.
- It does not complete paid tasks, accept studies, vote, comment or automate participation of any kind.
- It does not connect a wallet or payment account and does not move money.
- It does not use analytics, telemetry, advertising IDs, fingerprinting or any tracking.
- It does not send your data to the developer or to any third party, because there is no server component.
- It does not sell, rent or trade any data.
4. Network requests the extension makes
Your browser (not a Giggatory server) makes requests directly to the sources you enable, to fetch public listings. These are the same public endpoints you could open in a browser tab yourself. Requests are cached locally and rate-limited to be polite. If you enable no optional sources, only Hacker News and Remotive are contacted.
When you click an opportunity, the extension opens that opportunity's original URL in a new tab. If you
have entered your own referral link for that platform in Settings, that link is used. Only https://
destinations are opened.
5. Permissions and why they exist
| Permission | Reason |
|---|---|
storage | Save your settings, cached listings and history on your device. |
alarms | Run the periodic scan on the schedule you choose. |
notifications | Show at most one notification per scan when an opportunity clears your bar. |
scripting | Register the read-only content script for a browser-assisted source, but only after you opt in and grant that site's host permission. |
| Optional host permissions | Requested one at a time, only when you enable a source that needs to read a specific site. You can revoke them at any time in your browser's extension settings. |
6. Data retention and deletion
All data is local. To erase everything Giggatory holds, remove the extension, or use your browser's "Clear data" for the extension. Captured dashboard snapshots are automatically dropped after two hours or when the source is disabled. There is nothing stored off-device for us to delete.
7. Children
Giggatory is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly process their data.
8. Changes to this policy
Material changes will be reflected here with a new "Last updated" date and noted in the repository's release notes.
Giggatory, Find what pays. A radar, not an autoclicker.