Your privacy.

Short version: no accounts, no cookies, no tracking, no ads, no analytics. We count open tabs anonymously. We do not read or store IP addresses.

What's stored on your device

• Your topic, spring on/off switches, speed and reader filters (mute words, languages you picked, media-only, hide replies, data saver, Reels sound on/off), in your browser's localStorage, plus a 5-minute copy of the public headline packs so several open tabs share one download. They never leave your device; clear them any time by clearing site data.
• A random tab ID in sessionStorage (gone when you close the tab), used only for the "here now" counter.
• The app shell (page, logo, icons) in a service-worker cache, so it opens fast and works as a home-screen app. Feed content isn't cached.

What our server stores

• "Here now" counter: random tab IDs with the time they last checked in (once every 5 minutes), deleted after about 5 minutes, plus one total-visits number. No IP addresses, browser details, locations, referrers or fingerprints are read or stored, and nothing is logged.
• Relays (crypto news, world news, memes, etc.): they take no input from you except which fixed feed pack to load, store nothing and log nothing.

No adult content

porn, nudity and sexual content are not allowed anywhere on Open Current. Posts are dropped (not blurred) when a network labels or flags them (Bluesky porn/sexual/nudity labels on the post or the account, Mastodon and Misskey sensitive media, Lemmy NSFW, PeerTube NSFW, Nostr content warnings and labels), when they link to adult sites, or when their text, image descriptions, hashtags or account names contain explicit words (in many languages). An account caught once is hidden for the rest of your visit. Unreviewed Wikimedia Commons uploads and Nostr images are never displayed. The checks run on your device and on our relay with local lists; nothing is sent anywhere. No filter is perfect.

Secure links

Open Current only shows secure (https) links and blocks shorteners and known scam patterns. The check runs on your device with a built-in list — nothing you click is sent anywhere to be checked.

Who else sees your requests

• Many springs (Bluesky, Nostr relays, Wikimedia, Hacker News, Mastodon servers, Lemmy, YouTube search, images) are loaded straight from your browser, so those services see a normal request from your device, just as if you visited them. Data saver mode reduces this.
• Our host, Netlify, may keep standard server access logs, which can include IP addresses. We don't control those logs, we don't use them to identify you, and we don't add any logs of our own.
• In the main feed, videos play in YouTube's privacy-enhanced (youtube-nocookie) player only after you tap. On the Reels page, the clip on screen loads by itself (that is what Reels is), so the video host — Bluesky's video CDN, a PeerTube server, a Mastodon server or youtube-nocookie — sees that request.
• Language tags are worked out on your device. “Translate” is a plain link to Google Translate that only opens if you tap it.
• Coin Radar asks DexScreener and CoinGecko for prices only for the top 10 coins or when you tap one; Reels asks Bluesky's public API which clips are playable.

Open Current shows posts from other sites and links back to them; it doesn't host them.