What the extension does, and what it does not

What it puts on a page

One sponsored strip, 44px tall, at the top of the document, for seven seconds. The page is pushed down rather than covered, so the strip never sits over something you were reading. It does not remove, replace or reprice the site's own ads; it adds one slot of its own and nothing else.

Where it runs

On ordinary sites as you browse them, and explicitly not on tributly.io itself, which is excluded in the manifest. Our own site never carries our own inventory, so nothing you see on it is something we were paid to show you.

The permissions, one by one

Five, and this is the whole list. A browser shows them at install time without saying what any of them are for, so here is what each one does here.

storage

Keeps your settings and the earning-mode switch on the device, so the extension remembers whether it should be working.

tabs and activeTab

Tell the extension which tab is in front of you. That is the entire basis of a verified view, and it is used to know that a tab is active rather than to read what is in it.

scripting

Inserts the strip into the page. It is what draws the slot, and it is the only thing written into a page you visit.

alarms

Runs the timers: closing a slot after seven seconds and scheduling the next one without keeping a process awake in between.

What leaves your browser

An impression event: that a slot rendered, when it rendered, that it was on an active tab, and a device identifier that ties it to your account. That is what a payout has to be able to prove. The address of the page is not part of it, the content of the page is not part of it, and your history is not part of it.

What it never does

• Read, store or transmit the pages you visit.
• Touch the site's own advertising, layout or scripts beyond inserting its one slot.
• Ask for a password, a card, or access to an account somewhere else.
• Keep earning after you switch earning mode off.

Turning it off, and off for good

The popup has an earning-mode switch that stops ads immediately. Uninstalling removes the strip everywhere at once, the way any extension does. Your balance belongs to the account rather than to the browser, so it survives an uninstall, a new device, and a reinstall.

Which browsers

Chrome and Edge are supported, and both are covered by the same build. Firefox and Safari are next. It is free on every browser, with no paid tier to upgrade to.

Built on Manifest V3, so it runs on the footing Chrome now requires of every extension: no remotely loaded code, and a background worker that sleeps when nothing is happening rather than sitting resident in your browser.