Open Channel Statsbeta

Privacy

What this site stores

Open Channel Stats keeps no accounts, sets no cookies, and sends nothing about you to a server. The few things it remembers live only in your own browser. This page names each of them, and what it means.

2browser-local keysEach is written to your browser only and clears with any browser-data reset.

What isn’t collected

The site is built to read in full with nothing running — no analytics, no cookies, no third-party tracking. These are the things it deliberately does not gather.

  • No accounts

    There is no sign-in, no login, and no profile. Nothing here is tied to a person, and there is no account state to lose or leak.

  • No cookies

    The site sets no cookies of its own. Reading every page works the same whether your browser accepts cookies or not.

  • No third-party tracking

    There are no ad pixels, no analytics SDKs, and no cross-site trackers embedded in the pages. No third party is told that you were here.

  • No server-side store

    The site is a set of static files. There is no application server holding a record of who read what — the only state lives in your own browser.

What your browser keeps

2keys

A few visitor-experience features write to your browser’s localStorage. Nothing here is sent to any server.

  • Keyytpool_last_visit
    What it holds

    A snapshot of the channel's headline numbers from your previous visit — used to compute the “since you last visited” delta line the next time you land on the home page. Channels other than the featured one store theirs under a per-channel variant of this key, so each channel's delta only ever compares against its own numbers.

  • Keyytpool_compare_selection
    What it holds

    Your in-progress comparison picks on the compare tool (up to three video IDs), kept across a refresh or a back-navigation so the selection survives.

Who serves the pages

The site is hosted on a content delivery network. That edge sees the requests it serves, the way any web host does.

  • Cloudflare Web Analytics

    Page views are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is anonymous: no cookies, no tracking IDs, and no browser fingerprinting. As the network serving the files, the CDN may log the requests it handles, per its own privacy policy.

What channels share

Separate from anything about you as a reader: a channel’s owner can opt that channel into a shared pool of channel statistics. That choice has public consequences, and they are named here.

  • Opt-in only, never served raw

    No channel contributes by default; an owner opts in explicitly. The pooled dataset itself is never published — no page, for any visitor, reads it directly. What the pool computes reaches this site only inside pages rebuilt by the daily build, and aggregate figures drawn from it never name a contributing channel.

  • Public and pooled means named

    A channel that is both public and sharing to the pool is displayed by name — its handle, title, and headline numbers its own public page already shows — side by side with the other sharing channels. That named placement now appears in three places: the channel directory, each sharing channel’s own dashboard page, and the opening view of a newer channel. Every one shows the same already-public numbers placed next to each other — never a score, a rank, or a difference computed between channels. Only facts the channel already publishes appear there. A private channel is named nowhere, pooled or not.

  • Leaving is forward-only

    Opting out deletes a channel’s contributed data and removes its named listing on the next daily build. Copies made while it was listed — search caches, web archives, saved downloads — are outside this site’s reach, and opting out does not remove them.

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The rest of the honesty layer

This privacy note sits beside the other trust surfaces. Each names a different part of what the data is, where it came from, and what it can and can't say.

Methodology

How the numbers are gathered and what the public dataset deliberately leaves out before it ships.

Data limits

Every condition under which a number on this site is missing, coarse, or approximate — each paired with what it means when reading it.