Veyl — Privacy Agent for the Web

Veyl shows you what a website is actually doing with your data, in plain language, without ever sending your browsing anywhere.

WHAT'S NEW IN 1.1.3 • See what a page is set up to read from you. Advertising pixels can be configured to take your email address, name, phone number, postcode and date of birth out of any form on the page. Veyl reads that setting — from the tracker's own configuration, before you type anything — and tells you which fields it covers. • The report is now a side panel. It stays open while you browse and follows you from page to page. • Veyl can mark the page itself. A note in the corner when a page is high exposure, saying what made it high. Close it with a click or the Escape key, silence it per site, or turn it off entirely in settings. Veyl watches what a website actually does with your data, reads what it says it does, compares the two, and explains the result in normal language. It runs entirely in your browser. There is no account, no server, and no telemetry. Veyl has nowhere to send your browsing even if it wanted to. WHAT IT SHOWS YOU • Which companies your browser contacted while a page loaded, and what each of them does • Which cookies were set, which of them carry an identifier, and how long they last • Whether anything on the page tried to fingerprint your browser • Which personal fields the trackers on the page are configured to take from any form you fill in • What the site's own privacy policy says about collecting, sharing and selling your data • Where the two disagree — for example, a policy promising "only necessary cookies before you consent" while seven marketing services had already loaded WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Veyl does not give a site a score out of a hundred. A number like 62/100 looks authoritative and hides how much of the picture was actually visible. Instead each dimension gets a level, and every statement is labelled with where it came from: Observed — Veyl watched this happen in your browser Declared — the site claims this in its own published policy Inferred — Veyl concluded this from what a known service does Unknown — Veyl cannot establish this, and will not guess Two distinctions do most of the work. "None seen" means Veyl was watching and saw nothing — it is not proof that nothing happened. "Unknown" means Veyl could not look — it is not a quiet way of saying "low". So Veyl will tell you that advertising trackers loaded, and that the policy permits sharing with advertising partners. It will not tell you the site sold your data, because that depends on contracts no browser extension can see. It says so instead. PROTECTION THAT DOESN'T BREAK THINGS Turn on protection and Veyl blocks advertising and session-recording services, strips campaign tracking codes from links you open, and sends Global Privacy Control. Sign-in, payments, bot protection, cookie banners and content delivery are never blocked, at any level, with no exceptions. A privacy tool that breaks your checkout has not protected you. That guarantee is enforced in the code, not promised in the interface. ASK IN YOUR OWN WORDS Where Chrome provides its built-in on-device model, you can ask questions about a page and get a plain-English answer. Veyl ships no model and hosts none — Chrome runs it locally. The model is shown a summary of the findings already on your screen, never the page address or its content, and it phrases evidence rather than deciding anything. IT ASKS FOR NOTHING WHEN YOU INSTALL IT Veyl requests no access to any website up front. You allow it one site at a time from the Veyl icon, or everywhere from the settings page if you decide it has earned that. Chrome enforces the boundary. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Everything. Pages you visit and the trackers found on them live in memory for that tab and are destroyed when the tab closes. Privacy policies are fetched by your browser from the site itself, without your cookies, and are never uploaded. Optional monthly totals are counters only — no list of sites, no domains, no hashes of domains, no timestamps. The source, the tracker knowledge base, the scoring method and the privacy boundary are all published and documented: https://github.com/dev-amjad-shaikh/Veyl