Golda Alert privacy policy

Last updated: 2 September 2026

Golda Alert (“Golda,” “the extension”) is a Chrome/Brave browser extension by Roni Leibovitch. It does not create accounts, and it does not run a server that receives your browsing data or your tally.

Single purpose

Golda’s only purpose is to detect antisemitic tropes, slurs, and known personalities in the web pages you have open, alert you on the page, and keep a local count of those encounters so you can see how much of that content you are exposed to. It does not block sites, rewrite pages, inject ads, or provide unrelated browsing tools.

What Golda does on the page

When Golda is on duty, a content script may read text that is already on the web page you have open (for example post text and names). That scan happens in your browser. Matching uses on-device detectors for tropes, slurs, and known personalities you have enabled. Watchdog, Holocaust education, and encyclopedia sites that inform about antisemitism (for example stopantisemitism.org) are skipped so reporting is not counted as an incident.

Golda does not upload page contents to us. The only network request the overlay makes is loading its own stylesheet from the extension package.

What is stored, and where

Counts and settings are saved with Chrome’s storage.local API on the browser profile that installed Golda. That store is local to that profile on that device. It is not synced to a Golda cloud, a Golda account, or this website.

Local data may include:

• Your on/off settings (duty, tropes, personalities).
• Today’s incident count (shown on Golda’s placard and the toolbar badge) and the calendar date used to reset that daily count.
• An all-time alert count shown in the popup.
• Keys that mark which posts or pages were already counted today, so the same item is not tallied twice.
• A short experience log (up to 50 entries) with time, what matched, and the page title and URL of that encounter.

Each Chrome or Brave profile has its own tally. Two people, or two profiles on the same computer, do not share a count.

Permissions

Each permission is used only for the single purpose above. None of them are used to send page contents or your tally to a remote server.

• storage — to save on-device settings (on/off, which detectors are enabled), today’s incident count, the all-time count, keys that prevent double-counting the same post, and a short experience log (time, what matched, page title, URL). This data stays in chrome.storage.local on the browser profile that installed Golda. It is not synced to us.
• activeTab — used only when you click Summon Golda in the popup. That sends a test ping to the tab you are looking at so you can confirm Golda still appears. It is not used to read other tabs in the background.
• Host access (http and https pages) — Golda must run on ordinary websites (for example a news site or X/Twitter) because that is where antisemitic language appears. A content script reads text already shown on the page, matches it against on-device detectors, and may show the Golda overlay. Host access is not used to inject third-party scripts or to upload the page.

Remote code

Golda does not execute remote code. All JavaScript ships inside the extension package. The overlay loads its stylesheet and Golda image from that same package (Chrome’s extension URL), not from a CDN or other website. There is no eval of downloaded scripts, no remotely hosted workers, and no third-party analytics tags.

Data use

Website text is read locally in order to detect antisemitic language. Page titles and URLs of flagged encounters may be stored locally in the experience log. That information is not transmitted off the device, not sold, not used for advertising, and not used to determine creditworthiness. Golda does not collect personally identifiable information, health or financial information, authentication secrets, or a full browsing history.

We certify that:

• User data is not sold to third parties.
• User data is not used or transferred for purposes unrelated to Golda’s single purpose.
• User data is not used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes.

What we do not do

• No sign-in, email, or user ID.
• No advertising networks or third-party analytics in the extension.
• No sale of browsing data or counts.
• No hosting of a per-person antisemitism score on our servers — because there is no such server in this product.

How to clear data

Removing Golda Alert from Chrome or Brave deletes the extension’s local storage, including counts and the experience log. You can also clear site and extension data from your browser’s settings.

Children

Golda Alert is not directed at children under 13. Do not use it to collect information from children.

Changes

If this policy changes in a material way, we will update this page and the “Last updated” date. Continued use after an update means you are using Golda under the revised policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension: write to Roni Leibovitch via ronileibovitch.com or the contact email on the Chrome Web Store listing.

Homepage: https://ronileibovitch.com/golda/

Chrome Web Store listing URL for this policy: https://ronileibovitch.com/golda/privacy