Effective 2026-09-22 · applies to the Fogar browser extension
Fogar is a new tab page that answers questions using a language model running inside your browser, or a cloud model you connect with your own key. It has no server, no accounts, and no analytics. This page says exactly what leaves your browser and when.
Nothing. Fogar does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data on any server, because it has no server. There is no telemetry, no crash reporting, no usage analytics, and no identifiers.
| Feature | What is sent | To whom |
|---|---|---|
| Answers, on this device | Nothing. The model file is downloaded once from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) and cached in your browser. Your questions are processed locally. | Hugging Face, once, for the model file only |
| Answers, cloud with your key | Your prompt, the conversation in this tab, and your API key | Only the endpoint you typed in Settings |
| Web grounding (off until you tick “Search the web first”) | Your question, as a search query | DuckDuckGo’s Instant Answer API (api.duckduckgo.com) and Wikipedia by default, with no key or account; or the search provider you chose and gave a key for |
| Agenda widget (optional) | A request for the calendar address you pasted | Your calendar provider |
| Weather widget (optional) | The city you typed, then its coordinates | Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), which needs no account |
| Everything else | Nothing. Todos, reminders, recipes, notes, links, saved sessions, bookmarks search, and settings all stay in your browser. | Nobody |
The new tab page shows a live count of every network request it has made, by host, in Settings under “Network, this tab”. It is read from the browser's own timeline. If the count says zero, zero requests were made.
Everything Fogar remembers, including your API keys, is stored in Chrome's extension storage on your device and, for model files, in the browser's private file storage. Removing the extension deletes it. Settings has a button to download a complete backup and one to delete the cached models.
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
| storage | Saving your settings, todos, reminders, recipes, notes, and widget layout on this device. |
| alarms, notifications | Firing reminders at the time you set, as a Chrome notification. |
| bookmarks | Searching your bookmarks as you type, and removing one when you ask. |
| contextMenus | The right-click “Ask Fogar about …” item. |
| activeTab, scripting | When you use that right-click item, reading the title, address, and text around your selection from that one page, that one time. Fogar never runs on pages otherwise, and what it reads goes only to the model you chose. |
| favicon | Showing site icons next to bookmarks and links. |
| unlimitedStorage | Saved sessions can outgrow the default storage quota. No install warning. |
| Optional: tabs | Only if you add the Sessions widget: listing, searching and saving the titles and addresses of your open tabs, on this device. Chrome labels this permission “Read your browsing history”; Fogar reads open tabs, not your history, and only while the widget is on the page. |
| huggingface.co | Downloading the model file, once. |
| Optional: any site you add | Requested one at a time when you save a cloud endpoint, a search key, or a calendar address, so the extension can reach that address and no other. |
Hugging Face hosts the model files. DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia answer grounding lookups when you ask for them. Open-Meteo provides weather if you add the widget. Your chosen model, search, and calendar providers receive what the table above says and are governed by their own policies. Fogar has no relationship with any of them and receives nothing from them.
Fogar is not directed at children under 13 and, collecting nothing, holds no data about anyone.
If this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new effective date, and the extension's store listing links to it. A change that sends more data than described above would also be announced in the extension itself before it took effect.
Fogar is made by Dylan Roy. The code is public at github.com/dylanroy/fogar; open an issue there, or reach out through dylanroy.com.