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Privacy and your data

Privacy and your data

What Litr sends

Nothing of its own. Litr has:

  • no telemetry, analytics or crash reporting,
  • no accounts or sync,
  • no downloads of filter lists; ad block rules ship with the app.

The only network requests are the pages you open and what those pages load (less ads and trackers, which are blocked). Searches go to the search engine you chose in settings.

Litr itself makes one request: once a day it fetches https://elyracode.com/litr/latest.json to learn whether a newer version exists. The request carries nothing about you or your browsing, just an ordinary HTTPS request for that file. Turn it off with Check for updates automatically in settings. Web apps never check; Litr updates them.

What Litr stores, and where

Everything stays on your Mac.

What Where
Tabs, rooms, bookmarks, history, schedules, settings, list of web apps, privacy report counts ~/Library/Application Support/Litr/litr.db (SQLite)
Compiled ad block rules ~/Library/Application Support/Litr/ContentRules/
Updates while installing ~/Library/Caches/Litr/update/ (removed afterwards)
Cookies, logins, site storage, cache ~/Library/WebKit/no.gets.litr/ and ~/Library/Caches/no.gets.litr/ (managed by WebKit)
Downloads ~/Downloads/
Web apps ~/Applications/<Name>.app
A web app's tabs, history and settings ~/Library/Application Support/Litr/WebApps/<app id>/litr.db
A web app's cookies and site data ~/Library/WebKit/<app id>/

For each tab, Litr saves its address, title, colour, zoom, pinned address, and WebKit's saved back/forward history and scroll position (1–2 KB).

With Handoff on, the address and title of the page you're on go to your own iPhone and iPad through iCloud, as with Safari; never a forget tab's. See Sharing and Handoff.

Saved passwords are in your login keychain, encrypted by macOS, not in Litr's database. Litr's database only lists the sites you told it never to save a password for.

The assistant runs on your Mac. Pages and questions go to Apple's on-device model and translation, never to a server, and Litr doesn't store them.

Forget tabs (⇧⌘N) are left out of all of this: no history, no saved session, and their cookies and site data are deleted when they close.

History keeps one entry per address: title, site, time of the last visit and a visit count.

Clearing data

  • History: Settings → Clear History, or delete single entries in the history panel (⌘Y).
  • Everything: quit Litr and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Litr/, ~/Library/WebKit/no.gets.litr/ and ~/Library/Caches/no.gets.litr/.
  • A web app: see Web apps → Removing a web app.

Downloads and quarantine

Files you download are flagged by macOS as downloaded (quarantined), so Gatekeeper checks them before they are first opened. Web apps that Litr creates are not flagged, because Litr builds them on your Mac.

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