Short version:
nothing leaves your device.

What Nope does with page content

To do its job, Nope's content script reads the structure of the pages you visit to detect cookie consent banners and annoyances (newsletter popups, chat widgets, notification prompts, and so on), and then rejects, hides, or dismisses them. This processing happens entirely on your device. Page content is never recorded, stored beyond what's described below, or transmitted anywhere — there is nowhere for it to go.

What Nope stores (locally, on your device)

• Your settings — which annoyance types to zap, your cookie-banner preference, appearance options.
• Your site list — sites you've paused or allow-listed, and the CSS selectors of elements you've hidden with the element picker.
• Your zap counter — a running count of annoyances removed, by type.

This lives in your browser's extension storage (chrome.storage.local), never syncs to any server, and is deleted by your browser when you uninstall Nope. You can export, import, or wipe it anytime from Nope's settings.

Why Nope asks for access to all websites

Cookie banners and popups can appear on any site, so Chrome requires Nope to request permission for all sites to be able to act on them. This is the permission's only use. It's fair to be sceptical of any extension with that access, so here is the check you can hold us to: Nope makes no network requests at all — you can verify this yourself in DevTools → Network on any page, or by reading the source; the consent rules it uses (the open-source DuckDuckGo AutoConsent ruleset, MIT licence) are bundled inside the extension, not fetched remotely.

Honesty about cookie rejection

Where a site's consent platform is recognised, Nope genuinely declines non-essential cookies via the site's own consent controls. Where it isn't recognised, Nope only hides the banner, which means the site may still set cookies — and Nope tells you which of the two happened, per site. We'd rather be honest than impressive.

What Nope is not

• Not an ad blocker. Nope removes annoyances and handles cookie consent; it does not block or alter ads.
• Not a data business. Nope has nothing to sell, share, or monetise: no data is collected, so none is sold, shared with third parties, or used for advertising, profiling, or creditworthiness. It is funded by voluntary Ko-fi donations.

Third-party services

The extension itself uses none. If you choose to visit our Ko-fi page or email us, those interactions are governed by Ko-fi's and your email provider's own policies. The optional "report a site" button simply opens a pre-filled email in your own mail app — nothing is sent unless you send it.

Children

Nope collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If Nope's privacy behaviour ever changes (it isn't planned), this page will be updated and the change called out plainly in the extension's release notes before it ships.

Contact

Nope is a product from niallcodes, an independent software project operated by Florence Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom.
Questions: hello@niallcodes.com