Privacy
Inbox Reborn has no servers and no analytics. Nothing about you or your mail is collected. The code is open source on GitHub, and the full privacy policy is kept there too.
What stays in your browser
Everything the extension remembers lives in your browser's extension storage:
- your settings from the popup
- per Gmail account, which labels you've dragged to Bundled in the inbox and which categories to Unbundled
- per Gmail account, which conversations a drag down archived, so a drag up can bring back exactly those (see what moves when you drag)
- your recent contacts for the speed dial, and sender pictures it has already found
What it asks Gmail for
Two features ask Gmail itself, from your browser with your own Gmail session:
- Purchases, Travel and Finance bundles run the same searches Gmail's own Purchases,
Travel and Finance pages run (
in:inbox category:purchasesand so on), to learn which inbox conversations belong in them. Travel's search also names your travel labels ({category:travel label:Cruise}), so their mail bundles under Travel. The conversation ids the last search returned (ids only, nothing from the messages) stay in the page's local storage, so the bundles form with the inbox on the next load; they are removed when these bundles are turned off. - The speed dial asks for your newest sent conversations once per load, to know who you write to.
Moving mail when you drag a label between the sections is done through Gmail's own list and toolbar, in your tab; nothing is sent anywhere.
The only requests to anyone else
They are all for sender pictures, and turning Avatars off stops every one of them:
| Request | Where it goes | What it carries |
|---|---|---|
| Brand logos | A DNS-over-HTTPS lookup (Google, Cloudflare or DNSPod) for the sender's domain's published logo | the sender's domain |
| Company site icons | Google's icon service | the sender's domain |
| Gravatar photos | Gravatar, only with Gravatar photos on (off by default) | a hashed copy of the sender's address |
No request ever carries the contents of an email, a subject, or your own address.