Local means local.
Effective July 21, 2026.
Breakwater has no user accounts and does not collect, sell, transmit, or profile personal information. It uses no analytics, advertising, cookies, tracking pixels, or telemetry.
Data on your device
The extension stores configuration, feed-derived change records, reading
state, migration notes, and an optional license key in
chrome.storage.local. An optional Slack incoming webhook is
also stored locally. Configuration exports exclude notes, reading
history, license information, and Slack webhook URLs.
Direct connections
Breakwater connects directly from Chrome to ten official developer
changelog hosts, to Lemon Squeezy's License API when a user activates
Pro, and to hooks.slack.com only after the user supplies a
webhook and grants the optional permission. Those services may receive
standard network metadata under their own policies. Breakwater operates
no server and receives none of these requests.
Content safety and deletion
Feed HTML is converted to plain text and never rendered. Every fetch is HTTPS-only, host-allowlisted, time- and size-limited. Users can delete all local data in Settings or by removing the extension.
Contact
Email support@breakwaters.dev. This prelaunch site does not collect contact information.