Privacy

Last updated 5 Nov 2026, for camber 0.3.0

camber runs on your computer. There is no camber account and no camber server, and the app has no analytics, telemetry or crash reporting. Nothing about you or what you browse is sent to me. The app does talk to the services below, and it keeps some data on your computer. All of this comes from the source code, so you can check it.

What camber sends on its own

• GitHub. About 10 seconds after launch, and every 6 hours after that, camber asks GitHub for its latest release. On Windows and the Linux AppImage it downloads a newer release from GitHub in the background, and those checks carry a random ID made for your install. The update goes in when you restart from the sidebar or the next time you quit. camber never restarts by itself. GitHub sees your IP address on these requests. These are the only requests that reach anything of mine, and all I can see is GitHub's download counts.
• Google, for extensions. Extensions download from the Chrome Web Store. Once you have some, camber asks Google's extension update service about them at launch, then at most every 3 hours while camber is open. With no extensions installed it doesn't ask. Google's privacy policy covers what it does with this.
• Google, for spellcheck on Windows and Linux. The spellchecker camber is built with downloads its dictionary for your language from Google. It sends nothing you type. On macOS camber uses the Mac's own spellchecker.
• Sidebar icons. The sidebar shows each tab's icon, also for tabs that are unloaded. It loads the icon from the address the page gave, which can be on another site, or from the site's /favicon.ico if the page gave none.

What you type and visit

Pages you open talk to their own sites, as in any browser, and each site's own privacy policy applies there. Text in the address bar that isn't a web address is searched on DuckDuckGo, which is also the page camber opens at launch when the space you're in has no tabs.

What stays on your computer

• Your spaces, tabs, folders and settings, and the answer you gave each site when it asked for a permission like the camera, in a file called state.json.
• Cookies, site data and the cache, kept the way Chromium keeps them, the extensions you installed and the spellcheck dictionary.
• Import from Arc reads Arc's sidebar file on your computer and copies what it needs into state.json. It doesn't change Arc's files.
• On Windows and the AppImage, the install ID from the update check, and a downloaded update, which waits in a camber-updater folder until you restart or quit.

camber has no sync or backup, so it uploads none of this. Sites get their own cookies back and extensions can read what you let them, as in any browser.

Removing it

Quit camber, delete the app, then delete its folders:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/camber and ~/Library/Preferences/com.camber.browser.plist
• Windows: %APPDATA%\camber and %LOCALAPPDATA%\camber-updater
• Linux: ~/.config/camber, and ~/.cache/camber-updater for the AppImage, or the same names under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_CACHE_HOME if you set them

This website

This page is on my personal site, which uses Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics. They run on the website only, not in the app.

Contact

If camber starts sending anything new, the changelog and this page will say so. Questions go in a GitHub issue. See also the terms.