Privacy Policy | OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard

Introduction

A better new tab, without hidden surveillance

Open Source

"OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard" is designed to enhance your browser's default home page and new tab with a more polished, personal, and useful experience. The project was originally built as a personal experiment using plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and later published publicly after receiving strong feedback.

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No personal data sale or sharing

OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard does not collect, store, or sell personal information for advertising, profiling, or analytics.

02

Browser-native by design

Most behavior runs directly inside your browser, using browser-managed permissions when needed.

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User-controlled features

Optional capabilities such as bookmarks access, geolocation, and proxy use only matter when you enable or trigger them.

Community Contributions

Built in public and improved through GitHub

Since release, talented developers from the community have improved OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard through GitHub contributions. These updates include feature additions, refinements, and bug fixes. Each pull request is reviewed, tested, and verified before being merged so the extension stays stable and trustworthy.

Why this matters:

Open development makes it easier for users to inspect the code, understand changes, and decide whether the extension matches their expectations for privacy and security.

Data Collection and Permissions

What OmSpace collects: effectively nothing personal

Local Processing

OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard is focused on improving your browsing experience, not building a data pipeline. The extension does not collect, store, or share personal data. No analytics, tracking scripts, or remote logging systems are included. All core processing happens locally in your browser.

No analytics 0 trackers

No remote logging 0 telemetry feeds

Default storage model On-device only

Permissions

Only the permissions needed for a rich new tab experience

Search

Required

Enables integration with the browser's default search engine.

Bookmarks

Optional

If granted, OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard can display your bookmarks directly on the new tab page.

Favicon

Optional

Used to retrieve bookmark favicons from browser cache. It only returns icons the browser already has cached.

Favicon access does not expose your browsing history or page content. It is only used to make shortcuts and bookmark surfaces more visual and usable.

Browser APIs

Microphone and location stay browser-managed

Speech Recognition

Web Speech API

Enables voice search. Microphone access is triggered only when you click the mic icon, and access is handled by your browser. OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard does not collect or store voice recordings.

Geolocation

Browser Permission

Used to improve local weather accuracy. Access is controlled by your browser, and the extension does not track or share your location history.

External APIs and Services

Network requests only for the features that need them

User-facing features only

Some features rely on third-party endpoints to provide suggestions, weather, imagery, or quotes. These requests are made to power the experience you actively use. Site access can be controlled from your browser settings.

Search Suggestions

Autocomplete while typing

https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=*
https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=*
https://search.brave.com/api/suggest?q=*
https://*.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=*

Location Detection

Approximate city-level lookup

https://ipinfo.io/json

Used to fetch an approximate city-level location based on your IP so OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard can show relevant weather information.

Weather Updates

Forecasts and city search

https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/forecast.json?key=*
https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/search.json?key=*

Used for daily forecasts and location suggestions based on your chosen city and language preferences.

Random Wallpapers

Background imagery

https://picsum.photos/1920/1080

Fetches high-quality random images for visual variety on the new tab page.

Quotes

Multilingual inspirational text

https://github.com/prem-k-r/multilingual-quotes-api

Used to fetch quotes displayed on the dashboard.

Favicon Fetching

Shortcut and bookmark icons

https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons*
https://www.google.com/s2/favicons*

Used to fetch website favicons for shortcuts and bookmark surfaces.

Proxy Server

An optional feature that stays off unless you choose otherwise

Default state:

OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard includes an optional proxy mode for bypassing CORS restrictions on search suggestions, but it is disabled by default.

If you enable proxy mode, the best privacy-preserving option is to host your own proxy server so you retain full control. If you keep the default configuration, search suggestion requests are routed through:

https://mynt-proxy.rhythmcorehq.com

Transparency and Security

Open code, careful review, honest expectations

OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard aims to stay secure and privacy-conscious, but no software project is completely immune to mistakes or unexpected issues. In rare cases, unintended code or bugs could be introduced through future changes or contributions.

That is why users are encouraged to review the source code directly on GitHub and only use the extension when they feel fully comfortable with its contents. The open-source model is part of the trust model, not a replacement for your own judgment.

Thank You

Thanks for trusting OmSpace with your new tab

Thank you for using OmSpace - New Tab Dashboard. The goal is simple: make every new tab more useful, beautiful, and personal while staying respectful of your privacy.