Privacy policy

Spoiler-Free Football for DAZN, a Chrome extension · last updated 10 November 2026

The extension works in your browser. It has no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and it sells or shares nothing. The only things that leave your browser are the requests described below, which are needed for its features, a feedback message if you choose to send one, and what Chrome Sync copies to your other computers if you have it switched on.

Who is responsible

Philip Richter, who makes this extension as a fan, in his own time.
Email: spoiler-free-football@philiprichter.com

What stays in your browser

These are kept by Chrome in your browser. None of them is ever sent to the extension's server or to anyone else:

your settings, and whether the extension is switched on
where you are in each DAZN video, so you can pick up where you left off (kept for 60 days). This one is kept in the DAZN site's own storage in your browser, next to the video, and the most recent 40 also in the extension's own storage, for Chrome Sync.
for each game, whether you had the spoiler cover shown and which broadcaster you picked
which ratings and results you chose to reveal on the ratings page
which standings you chose to show, and which gameday you last looked at on the ratings page
your list of blocked sites
which covered videos and comments on YouTube and Vimeo you chose to show (kept for 60 days)
the channels and names you listed under “Also cover”
the language you picked, and your DAZN market (for example en-DE), taken from DAZN's addresses
a copy of the schedule and ratings, for when the server can't be reached

If you have Chrome Sync switched on, Chrome copies some of them to Chrome on your other computers signed in to the same Google account, so that you can carry on there: your settings and whether the extension is switched on, where you are in each DAZN video, which ratings and results you revealed, which standings you showed, which gameday you last looked at, and the channels and names under “Also cover”. With them goes a random id for each computer and when it last changed something, so that the others can show when something last came from another computer; it stands for nothing else. Chrome does this through your Google account, under Google's privacy policy; the extension's server never sees any of it. With Chrome Sync off, they stay on the computer they were made on.

What the extension asks its server

The schedule, the ratings, the links to games on DAZN and the broadcaster of a game come from the extension's own server, spoiler-free-nfl-data.vercel.app, which gets them from ESPN and DAZN. For that the extension sends:

for the schedule and ratings: which gameday you are looking at
for a link to a game on DAZN: which game, and your DAZN market
on a DAZN game page: DAZN's id for that game, and your DAZN market, to find out which TV network the broadcast is from

None of this identifies you. Like any server, it receives your IP address with each request, in order to answer it; the extension's code does not store it. Vercel, which hosts the server, may keep standard technical logs for a short time.

Feedback you send

If you send a bug report, an idea or a note from the Feedback page, the server stores:

what you wrote, and what kind of message it is
your favourite team, if you picked one
your email address, if you gave one, only so I can reply
for a bug report, if you leave it switched on: the extension's version, your browser and system, language, time zone, DAZN market, the extension's settings, and where the problem happened. The page lists exactly these before you send.
not your IP address, only a one-way scrambled version of it (a salted hash), used to limit how many messages one sender can send

Messages are kept for 180 days and then deleted automatically. A copy is emailed to me through my own mail server so that I see it. Nobody else reads or receives them.

Blocked sites

When you add a site to your blocked sites, Chrome asks you to give the extension access to it. The extension uses that access for one thing: to show its warning page instead of the site. It does not read or change that site's pages, and the list stays in your browser.

YouTube and Vimeo

If you turn on “Cover videos about the NFL” for YouTube or for Vimeo, in the settings or in the toolbar popup, Chrome asks you to give the extension access to that site. The extension uses that access to read the titles, channel names and comments on that site's pages, in your browser, and to cover the ones about the NFL. Nothing it reads is sent anywhere or kept, except which covered videos and comments you chose to show, as above. A Short's tile on YouTube doesn't show its channel, so for a Short on the page the extension asks YouTube itself, without your cookies, which channel it is from. It asks the same about a video when you open that video's three-dot menu, where it offers to block the channel. And where a video's title and channel come close to being about the NFL without settling it, it asks YouTube, the same way, for that video's description and tags. Both requests go to YouTube and nowhere else. Turning the setting off gives the access back.

When you open the toolbar popup, it looks at the address of the tab you are on, only to tell whether that is YouTube or Vimeo, so it can offer the switch for that site. The address is not kept and not sent anywhere.

The pages it changes

On DAZN and on the CBS Sports NFL scoreboard, and on YouTube and Vimeo if you turn that on, the extension hides things on the page, such as scores, key moments and videos about the NFL. It looks at the page only to find what to hide. Nothing from those pages is sent anywhere, except DAZN's id for the game you are watching, as described above.

Other services

Vercel hosts the server, and Neon is its database, both in the United States.
ESPN: the team logos on the ratings page load straight from ESPN's image server, so your browser asks ESPN for them, as it would on ESPN's own site.
PayPal and the cryptocurrency addresses on the support page are only used if you choose to donate; PayPal's own privacy policy applies there.

What it never does

collect your browsing history
use analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind
sell or give your data to anyone, or use it for anything but the features above

Your rights

You can ask what feedback of yours is stored, and have it corrected or deleted, by writing to spoiler-free-football@philiprichter.com. Everything kept in your browser goes when you remove the extension. You can also complain to a data protection authority.