TalkOver

TalkOver — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-05-24

TalkOver is a Chrome extension that records your active browser tab — optionally with a webcam overlay and microphone audio — and lets you export the result as a video or GIF file directly to your computer.

Summary

TalkOver does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any of your data. Everything the extension records or stores exists only inside your own browser, on your own machine. There are no accounts, no servers, no analytics, no third-party scripts, no remote fonts, and no network requests of any kind made by the extension itself.

What TalkOver accesses

When you actively use TalkOver, the extension touches the following data on your device:

Data	When	Where it goes
Video of the active browser tab	Only while you are recording, via chrome.tabCapture	Stored locally in your browser’s IndexedDB, never sent anywhere
Audio playing in the recorded tab	Only while you are recording, only if you enable “Audio”	Same
Microphone audio	Only while you are recording, only if you enable “Audio” and choose a microphone	Same
Webcam video	Only while you are recording, only if you enable “Webcam” and choose a camera	Same
Title of the recorded tab	Captured at the moment you start recording, used to name the downloaded file	Stored locally in chrome.storage.local until the tab closes
Your TalkOver settings (FPS, scale, quality, etc.)	Saved automatically as you change them	Stored locally in chrome.storage.local

What TalkOver does NOT do

• It does not send any of the above to TalkOver, Google, the developer, or any third party.
• It does not create user accounts, identifiers, or session tokens.
• It does not load remote code, remote fonts, remote stylesheets, or analytics scripts.
• It does not read or modify the contents of web pages.
• It does not track your browsing history, bookmarks, downloads, or cookies.
• It does not record anything when you are not actively recording. The webcam preview you see in the popup while configuring is local to the popup window and is discarded as soon as you close it.

Permissions used

TalkOver requests the minimum permissions needed to function:

• tabCapture — to capture the active tab as a media stream while you are recording.
• activeTab — to read the title of the tab you’re recording so the saved file can be named after it.
• offscreen — to run a MediaRecorder in a background document, which is the Manifest V3 way of recording media.
• storage — to remember your settings and which tab has a saved recording, across browser restarts.

Where recordings live and how to delete them

Recordings are saved in your browser’s local IndexedDB under the database name talkover-store. They are scoped per browser tab and are automatically deleted when:

• you start a new recording in that tab, or
• you close that tab.

You can also clear everything manually at any time by removing the TalkOver extension, or by clearing your browser’s site data for the extension via chrome://settings/content/all → “TalkOver”.

Children’s privacy

TalkOver is a general-purpose recording tool and does not knowingly collect any data — from children or adults.

Changes to this policy

If the data-handling behavior of the extension ever changes, this document and the Chrome Web Store listing will be updated to reflect that. The “Last updated” date at the top of this document marks the most recent revision.

Contact

Questions or concerns: open an issue at https://github.com/NeoVand/TalkOver/issues.