MachOne — Privacy Policy
MachOne does not collect, store, transmit, sell, or share any personal data. Period. It has no user accounts, no analytics, no advertising libraries, no crash reporters, no telemetry, and no third-party SDKs. We have no servers of our own — there is nowhere for your data to go.
What the app sends over the network
MachOne makes outbound HTTPS requests in exactly two situations:
1. Refreshing filter lists. Roughly every 12 hours (or when you tap “Update filter lists”), MachOne downloads its blocking rules from these public filter-list servers:
These requests contain no personal information beyond what every standard
HTTPS request includes (the requested URL and a generic
MachOne/1.0 User-Agent string). Nothing about you, your
device, or your browsing is attached.
2. The Protection Benchmark — only when you run it. When you tap “Run benchmark,” MachOne loads a private, throwaway web view on your device and fires requests at a fixed list of well-known tracker and ad domains — once with protection off, once with it on — to measure what gets blocked. This means those third-party tracker hosts may briefly receive an ordinary network request from your device during the test, exactly as they would if a web page had embedded them. MachOne attaches no identifying information, sends nothing it collected about you (it has nothing), and the results are computed and stored only on your device. The benchmark never runs unless you start it.
What the Safari extensions can see — and what they do with it
Safari will tell you that MachOne’s web extension “can read and alter webpages.” Here is exactly what that access is used for:
- Hiding leftover ad slots, cookie banners, and pop-ups on the page
- Blocking tracker requests the filter lists miss, and disguising canvas / WebGL / audio fingerprints
- Stripping tracking parameters from links you click
- Counting what was blocked so the popup can show you per-page numbers
All of this processing happens locally inside Safari on your device. Page content is never recorded, stored beyond the page visit, or transmitted anywhere. MachOne’s content blockers (the rule-based parts) work entirely inside Safari’s content-blocker system, which by design prevents them from seeing your browsing at all.
What is stored on your device
MachOne stores, locally and only locally: the downloaded filter-list files, its rule counts and update timestamps, an integrity log of filter downloads, benchmark results, the list of sites where you chose to pause MachOne, and a small extension status file. This data lives in the app’s sandboxed container, never leaves your device, and is deleted when you delete the app.
No tracking, no profiling, no sale of data
MachOne does not track you across apps or websites, builds no profiles, and sells or shares nothing — there is nothing to sell. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar laws: we do not collect personal information, so there is nothing to access, delete, correct, or opt out of.
Children
MachOne does not knowingly collect information from children — or from anyone. There is nothing to collect.
Payments
MachOne is free to download. The optional MachOne Pro unlock is processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details, name, or Apple Account information. Apple’s handling of that data is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published at this same URL with an updated effective date. Since MachOne collects nothing, any future change could only make that promise more specific — never weaker — without a clear, prominent notice in the app.
Contact
Questions about privacy: corbintucker@icloud.com