01 What Yoink does
Yoink is a Chrome extension with no popup, no account, and no settings screen. When you click its toolbar icon, it looks at the page currently open in your active tab, finds the most prominent list, grid, or table, and copies that content to your clipboard as tab-separated text. That's the entire product.
02 Data collection
Yoink does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any data — from you or about you. Specifically, Yoink does not:
- Send any page content, extracted data, or clipboard contents to a server. There is no server. Yoink has no backend.
- Use analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting of any kind.
- Track which sites you visit, how often you use the extension, or what you copy.
- Use cookies, local storage, or any persistent identifiers.
- Require or request sign-up, an account, or any personal information.
- Share or sell data to third parties — there is nothing collected to share.
Everything Yoink does happens locally, inside your browser, in the moment you click the icon. Once the extracted text is on your clipboard, Yoink's job is done and it holds onto nothing.
03 Permissions Yoink requests
Yoink asks for the smallest set of Chrome permissions that can do the job:
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
activeTab |
Lets Yoink read the page you're on only after you click the toolbar icon — not before, and not on tabs you haven't clicked it on. |
scripting |
Lets Yoink inject its extraction script and toast notification into the active tab at the moment you click the icon. |
Yoink does not request host_permissions, tabs, storage, webRequest, or any permission that would let it read your browsing history, run in the background, or access pages you haven't explicitly asked it to.
04 The clipboard
Yoink writes extracted text to your operating system's clipboard using your browser's standard clipboard API — the same mechanism any site uses when you click a "copy" button. That data goes exactly one place: your clipboard, ready for you to paste. Yoink never reads your clipboard, only writes to it.
05 Third parties
Yoink does not integrate with any third-party service, API, ad network, or analytics provider. It doesn't load remote scripts or fonts. Nothing about your usage of Yoink is visible to us or to anyone else, because nothing is transmitted in the first place.
06 Children's privacy
Yoink does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children, because it does not collect information at all.
07 Changes to this policy
If Yoink ever changes in a way that affects this policy, the update will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date. Given the extension's design — no server, no accounts, no data collection — we don't expect that to change.
08 Contact
Questions about this policy or the extension can be raised via the GitHub issues page for the project.