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Privacy Policy

fYT Rating · Last updated: 21 August 2026

fYT Rating is a free, open-source Android application that reads and changes the like status of YouTube videos on the signed-in user's own account. This policy describes what it does with personal data.

Summary

The application has no server and no backend of its own. It collects no analytics, contains no advertising, and shares no data with anyone. The only external service it contacts is the YouTube Data API, on the user's behalf and only after the user has authorised it.

The data the application handles

Google account data

If the user signs in, the application can read and set the rating of a YouTube video on that account. It requests a single scope, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl, and uses it for exactly two YouTube Data API calls:

• videos.getRating — reads the signed-in user's rating of a video, so it can be displayed
• videos.rate — sets that rating when the user, or an application the user has allowed, asks for it

The narrower read-only scope cannot be used: videos.getRating returns the user's own rating and rejects it.

Authorisation is delegated to Google Play services through Android's standard AccountManager. The user chooses the account and approves the consent screen drawn by the system. The application never receives, requests or stores a password, and no client secret is embedded in it. Access tokens are managed by Google Play services and are not written to storage by this application.

What is stored on the device

In the application's private storage, and nowhere else:

• the address of the connected account
• the channel name associated with it, used only to show which account is connected
• the list of applications the user has allowed to use the bridge
• the list of applications that have requested access and been refused, so the user can decide about them

All of it is removed when the user signs out, except the allow list, which the user manages directly.

What is not collected

The application does not collect names, contacts, messages, browsing or watch history, files, photographs, location, device identifiers or any identifier used for tracking or advertising. It does not build profiles and does not sell data, because it transmits none.

Video titles and thumbnails fetched for display are held in memory only and are not stored.

Other applications on the device

fYT Rating can answer rating requests from other applications so they do not have to request Google authorisation themselves.

No application is allowed by default. A request from an application the user has not explicitly allowed is refused. The identity of a caller is established from the creator of an Android PendingIntent, which is recorded by the operating system and cannot be forged by the caller.

An allowed application can ask for the rating of a video and can change it. It receives no account credentials, no access token, and no information about the account beyond the ratings it asks about. Access can be withdrawn at any time in Allowed applications.

Third-party services

The YouTube Data API is the only external service contacted, and only while the user is signed in. Those requests are governed by Google's Privacy Policy.

Video thumbnails are loaded from Google's public thumbnail host. No account information is sent with those requests.

Withdrawing consent

Access can be withdrawn in two ways, and either is sufficient:

• in the application, by signing out — this also revokes the authorisation at Google, so the application disappears from the account's connected apps
• at myaccount.google.com/permissions

After withdrawal the application can no longer read or change any rating.

Data retention

Nothing is retained anywhere but the device. Signing out removes the stored account address and channel name immediately. Uninstalling the application removes everything it stored.

Children

The application is not directed at children and collects no data from them.

Changes to this policy

Changes are published on this page, with the date at the top updated. Material changes will also be noted in the release notes.

Contact

Questions and requests can be raised as an issue in the project repository, or sent to the support address shown on the Google consent screen.