What changed:

• Primary domain: watchlater.alxple.com is now the canonical site address
• No service changes: The extension and website functionality remain unchanged

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What is GDPR?

GDPR is a European privacy law that took effect in 2018. It requires websites and services to be transparent about what data they collect, how they use it, and gives users control over their personal information.

Even though GDPR is a European regulation, it applies to any website or service processing data from EU residents. Since our servers are in Germany, we comply with GDPR standards for all users worldwide.

Key GDPR Principles

GDPR is built on these core principles:

• Transparency – We tell you exactly what data we collect
• Purpose Limitation – We only use data for stated purposes
• Data Minimization – We collect only what we need
• Integrity and Confidentiality – We keep your data secure
• User Rights – You control your own data

How Watch Later Button Complies with GDPR

The Extension Itself

The Watch Later Button browser extension does not collect any personal data. Period.

• ❌ No tracking of your browsing history
• ❌ No storage of your Watch Later list
• ❌ No uploads to our servers
• ✅ Everything happens locally in your browser
• ✅ Communication only with YouTube’s official services

Our Website

Our website (watchlater.alxple.com) uses Umami Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics tool. Here’s what makes it GDPR compliant:

Self-Hosted & Under Our Control

Umami runs on our own servers at uptime.alxple.com. This means:

• ✅ Your analytics data never leaves our infrastructure
• ✅ No third-party companies have access to your data
• ✅ We have complete control over data retention and deletion
• ✅ No integration with advertising networks

What Umami Collects

When you visit our website, Umami records:

• Which pages you view
• Your device type (desktop/mobile)
• Browser information
• Approximate location (country level)
• Interaction events (button clicks)

What it doesn’t do:

• ❌ No individual user tracking
• ❌ No persistent cookies
• ❌ No IP address storage (hashed and discarded)
• ❌ No behavioral profiling
• ❌ No retargeting or advertising

Data Retention

Analytics data is automatically deleted after 90 days. After that period, it’s permanently removed from our servers.

Your Control

You can opt out of analytics collection:

• Use Do Not Track (DNT) – Enable it in your browser settings and Umami will respect it
• Browser Extensions – Use privacy-focused extensions to block analytics scripts
• Contact Us – Email us if you have concerns about data collection

Our Transparency Commitments

We’ve published detailed legal documents to ensure complete transparency:

Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains:

• What data we collect (extension vs. website)
• How we use analytics data
• Your rights under GDPR
• How to opt out or exercise data subject rights
• Contact information for privacy inquiries

Legal Notice (Impressum)

Our Impressum (required by German law) provides:

• Contact information
• Copyright and liability information
• Dispute resolution information
• Data controller details

Why Privacy Matters

In 2026, privacy is more important than ever. We believe:

1. Your data is yours – We should never control your personal information
2. Transparency builds trust – You deserve to know what’s happening with your data
3. Minimal collection – The less data collected, the less risk
4. Open development – Our code is open source on GitHub

What This Means for You

✅ Your extension usage is completely private – We have no visibility into what videos you save

✅ Your website visits are anonymized – We see aggregate statistics, not individual tracking

✅ You have legal rights – Under GDPR, you can request access to, deletion of, or correction of any data

✅ You can opt out – Use DNT or contact us to disable analytics

Questions?

If you have questions about our privacy practices or want to exercise your GDPR rights:

1. Read our Privacy Policy – Complete details about data handling
2. Check our Impressum – Contact information
3. Email us – pletnov.alex@gmail.com

We take your privacy seriously and are committed to maintaining the highest standards of data protection.

Last Updated: May 14, 2026

Want to learn more about GDPR? Check out:

• GDPR Official Text
• Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
• German Data Protection Authority (BfDI)

This release is a Firefox-specific maintenance update.

The goal is to keep Firefox distribution aligned with the latest extension behavior and improve overall compatibility.

Firefox Add-ons listing:

What changed

• Firefox package and release track updated to version 1.5.1.1
• Minor compatibility and maintenance adjustments for Firefox environment
• No new permissions added
• Core one-click Watch Later workflow remains unchanged

Notes

This update focuses on stability and release alignment.

If you are already using the extension in Firefox, no action is required beyond normal auto-update.

Version 1.5.1 brings full button support to YouTube Shorts, so you can add Shorts videos to Watch Later directly from the Shorts interface.

This update extends the one-click flow beyond classic watch pages and keeps behavior consistent between Watch and Shorts surfaces.

More reliable button mounting on YouTube Watch and Shorts

Alongside Shorts support, this release improves mount reliability across dynamic YouTube layouts, especially during SPA navigation between videos and Shorts.

What was improved:

• Stronger fallback selectors for Watch and Shorts action areas
• Safer delayed backfill attempts when action containers appear late
• Better observer target selection for fast re-detection after navigation

Cleaner undo behavior after navigation

The temporary undo state introduced in v1.5.0 is now reset more predictably when YouTube changes pages without a full reload.

This prevents stale visual states (such as active undo countdown style) from carrying over between unrelated videos.

Better stability for card-level injection

We also improved card injection consistency across Home and Results, including modern lockup/card variants, while avoiding duplicate button mounts.

Internal maintenance updates

• Improved re-initialization deduplication for burst navigation events
• Additional cleanup of retry/backfill timer handling
• Minor diagnostics improvements for debugging dynamic mount timing

Version 1.5.1 focuses on reliability and UI-state consistency without changing the core one-click workflow.

This release improves button rendering on modern YouTube card components, including newer thumbnail view models used across Home and Results pages.

New undo flow and icon state after adding to Watch Later

We added an undo icon state after adding a video to the Watch Later playlist.

What changes after click:

• The button icon changes to a confirmed state
• The button color changes from red to green
• A circular 10-second countdown starts around the button

During this 10-second window, clicking the button again removes the video from Watch Later (undo action). After the timer ends, the temporary undo state is cleared automatically, and you can still remove the video in the usual way.

Reliability checks completed

• End-to-end SPA navigation scenarios pass
• Manual verification confirms buttons appear in expected places on YouTube

This update improves the most important reliability case: opening a video via YouTube SPA navigation (for example, from Home or Search) without refreshing the page.

The extension now uses a stronger mount-target strategy for the watch page and keeps retrying until the button is mounted in the preferred watch metadata area.

Search results behavior remains clean and consistent

On /results, the extension keeps a single button per result item in the intended menu area and avoids duplicate overlay buttons on thumbnails.

Better recovery flow for dynamic YouTube layouts

To reduce missed renders on delayed metadata updates, we improved:

• SPA re-initialization timing
• Backfill retries for late DOM changes
• Watch-page observer target selection

Code quality and maintainability improvements

This release also includes internal cleanup to make future fixes safer and easier:

• Centralized selector configuration
• Reduced redundant mount-path logic
• Added re-initialization deduplication for burst SPA events

These changes are focused on real-world reliability while preserving existing behavior for users who already had stable rendering.

This update adds 7 new locales to improve accessibility for more users worldwide:

• Arabic (ar)
• Hindi (hi)
• Swedish (sv)
• Portuguese (Portugal) (pt_PT)
• Czech (cs)
• Greek (el)
• Romanian (ro)

Why this update

These locales were prioritized based on 90-day user distribution data to cover large and medium user groups not previously localized.

This version focuses on making the button appear reliably without needing page refreshes or browser restarts.

We improved initialization and recovery logic for YouTube’s SPA navigation:

• Added safe timeout handling for element waiting
• Added observer lifecycle cleanup to prevent long-running leaks
• Added retry flow for delayed action bar rendering
• Improved re-initialization on YouTube navigation events

These changes significantly reduce cases where the button could fail to render.

New popup design aligned with website style

The extension popup now matches the visual style of the official website with updated colors, typography, and cleaner action cards.

We also added:

• Contact link
• Website link
• “What’s new” link
• Visible extension version in the popup footer

Better localization coverage

New popup labels (contact, website, whatsNew) are now available across all supported locales, so the new popup actions are translated consistently.

Behind-the-scenes improvements

• Cleaner logging behavior for production
• Better diagnostics for re-initialization attempts
• Updated tests for real SPA navigation scenarios

This release improves day-to-day reliability first, while also refreshing the user-facing popup experience.

We refreshed the Watch Later Button website with a cleaner, more modern layout.
The new structure improves visual consistency and makes key information easier to scan.

Clearer Navigation

Navigation is now easier across Home, Privacy, Updates, and individual update posts.
Active states and quick links make it clearer where you are and where to go next.

Better Readability

We improved typography and spacing on content pages so section headings stand out and long text is easier to read.

Updated Chrome Web Store Screenshots

We also updated screenshots on the Chrome Web Store listing to better reflect the current interface and user flow.

This release focuses on website UX improvements only. Extension functionality remains unchanged.

This release brings the Watch Later Button to a global audience with support for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Turkish, and more. Make saving videos to Watch Later easier in your language.

New website

We’ve launched a new dedicated website at watchlater.alxple.com with updated documentation, privacy information, and version history. Check it out!