About & privacy

What Curioloop is

Curioloop uses YouTube API Services to collect YouTube Shorts from a hand-picked list of science, math, history and tech channels and shows them in one simple vertical feed. You can filter by topic, save favorites, share videos and turn on optional fun-fact cards. It's free and needs no account.

The videos belong to their creators

Every video plays through YouTube's official embedded player (YouTube's privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com mode). Curioloop doesn't download, copy or re-host any video. The videos, titles and thumbnails belong to their creators, and any ads YouTube shows in its player stay exactly as YouTube shows them.

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When you play a video, YouTube's Terms of Service apply, and YouTube/Google may process data as described in the Google Privacy Policy. Privacy-enhanced mode limits this, but YouTube may still store some data in your browser once a video plays.

Uses YouTube API Services

Curioloop uses YouTube API Services (the official YouTube Data API) to find new Shorts from the channels below and to get their titles, view counts and publish dates. The video list is refreshed automatically every day, and older YouTube data is replaced rather than kept.

By using Curioloop, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. YouTube's and Google's handling of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

Curioloop never asks you to sign in to Google or YouTube and never accesses your YouTube account. The YouTube API key stays on our server and is never sent to your browser.

Privacy, in plain English

• No account, no cookies from Curioloop. We don't ask for your name, email or anything personal.
• Personalization stays on your phone. What you watch, skip, finish and save, plus your picked interests, adjusts the feed using data stored only in your browser (localStorage). It's never uploaded.
• Anonymous usage stats. To see how the app is used, your browser creates a random ID (not linked to you) and sends small events to our own server: session started, video viewed (and whether it was finished or skipped), topic and channel, fun fact shown, save, share. Only a coarse device type (mobile or desktop) is recorded.
• No IP addresses or browser fingerprints are stored, and there are no third-party analytics or ad trackers from Curioloop. Fonts and icons are served from our own server.
• Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control respected. If your browser sends either signal, no usage stats are sent at all.
• Reports. If you report a video, we store the video, the reason you picked and the anonymous ID, so we can review it. The video is hidden for you right away.
• Hosting. Curioloop is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and the anonymous stats are kept in a Cloudflare D1 database. Cloudflare handles the network connection the way any web host or CDN does; Curioloop itself never stores IP addresses.

Reset or delete your data

• Open the ⋯ menu → Reset recommendations to clear what the feed has learned.
• To remove everything (saved videos, hidden videos, interests and the anonymous ID), clear this site's data in your browser settings.
• Turn off fun-fact cards anytime in the ⋯ menu.

Contact

Contact: centralfloridaweb@gmail.com