Privacy and License

Privacy & License

Privacy

YouTube Zero does not require a Google account or a YouTube Data API key. It stores app data locally in SQLite. The app still connects to YouTube to fetch RSS feeds, metadata, thumbnails, pages, and embedded videos.

Limitations

• RSS feeds expose only a limited recent set of videos per channel.
• YouTube page structure can change, which may affect metadata, live detection, Shorts detection, or playlist parsing.
• Embedded playback is still YouTube playback and follows YouTube embed behavior.
• This is a personal/self-hosted tool, not a multi-user service.

Trademark notice

YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise associated with YouTube or Google LLC.

Acknowledgements

• SponsorBlock — community-driven database of skippable segments in YouTube videos (sponsors, intros, outros, and more). YouTube Zero optionally queries the SponsorBlock API to automatically skip segments while watching. SponsorBlock is an open-source project by Ajay Ramachandran — thank you to everyone who contributes segments to the database. Ajay is doing an amazing job and the project is well worth supporting — you can do so at sponsor.ajay.app/donate.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only (AGPL-3.0-only).

See LICENSE for the full license text.