Privacy policy

Curmudgeon Works · applies to Curmudgeon Browser · last updated 4 November 2026

The short version

Curmudgeon Browser shows the websites you open. We do not collect anything about you: no analytics, no advertising, no accounts, no crash reporting. What you browse stays on your device: the app never sends your data off it.

What goes over the network

A browser has to talk to the sites you visit, and those sites see what any site sees: your IP address, the pages you request, and the cookies they set. Their own privacy policies apply. Apart from that, the app contacts:

• Your search engine · DuckDuckGo by default, or the one you pick in Settings, when you search from the address bar.
• Block list · off by default. If you switch it on, the list is downloaded from the address shown in Settings (StevenBlack hosts list on GitHub by default) and checked on your device. Nothing is sent back.

Some features other browsers have are left out on purpose, because each would send your data off the device. They appear in Settings, switched off, so you know why:

• Search suggestions · would send what you type to a search engine. Suggestions from your own history and bookmarks still appear; they never leave the device.
• Location · websites cannot get your location.
• Camera and microphone · websites cannot use them.
• Safe Browsing · would send information about pages you visit to an online list of dangerous sites.
• Copy-protected media · playing copy-protected music and video would send an ID for your device to the site.

When a site asks for any of these, the app tells you, and you can open that page in another browser if you choose.

No data ever goes to Curmudgeon Works.

What stays on your device

Your history, bookmarks, open tabs, cookies, site data, per-site settings and downloads. They live in the app's private storage (downloads go to your Downloads folder). The app opts out of Android's cloud backup. You can clear any of it in Settings → Data, or have it cleared when you exit.

Permissions

• Internet and network state · to load web pages.
• Storage (Android 9 and older only) · to save downloads.

Third parties

Besides the sites and services listed above, which you choose to use, no third party receives data from the app. Google Play may collect installation and crash statistics under Google's own policies, which are outside our control.

Children

The app is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date above will change and the new text will be published here. Questions: hello@curmudgeon.works.