Version 0.1.1 ยท 23 October 2026
This disclosure describes the Bounce Browser Beta extension and its separate local browser companion. It does not describe every feature of the Bounce desktop application or of your chosen AI harness.
After you enable browser control, an authenticated local harness can create task tabs and request page observations, screenshots, navigation, clicks and typing in those tabs. Existing tabs are not adopted. The extension only controls tabs recorded as belonging to an active task. It does not scan your general browsing history.
Task-tab URLs, titles, visible page text, element labels and form values, requested text input and screenshots pass through Chrome native messaging to the local companion and requesting harness. Depending on the websites you open, this can include personal communications, personal identifiers, financial, health or other sensitive website content. Input and click commands also describe user activity within the task.
Password input values are omitted from structured observations and direct password/file-input actions are blocked. Screenshots are not redacted. Website content, text you type elsewhere on a page, URLs and screenshots can still expose sensitive information. Do not use this beta for sensitive tasks.
The extension sends data to the installed local companion using native messaging. The companion returns it to the authenticated local harness. That harness may send it to its configured AI provider and retain prompts, tool results or images under its own settings and policies. Check that harness and provider before enabling control. This extension and companion have no analytics, advertising, direct cloud upload or model-training integration. They do not sell page data.
The extension stores your enabled/stopped choice in local extension storage. Browser-session storage holds task IDs, task names, owned-tab IDs, URLs and titles for recovery. It is cleared on a full browser restart. DOM references and recent screenshot records are temporary memory. Task content passes through companion memory; it is not intentionally written to companion logs. The companion keeps local authentication tokens and native-host files in its private runtime directory. The requesting harness and websites may retain their own copies.
The extension begins stopped. Enable browser control in its toolbar popup only for tasks you authorize. Stop disconnects the companion, revokes control and attempts to close owned task tabs. Disabling or removing the extension prevents further extension access. End tasks before removal so their tabs can be cleaned up. Stop cannot undo website actions or delete content already retained by a website, harness or provider. The companion README explains local removal.
HTTP(S) host access and scripting support bundled observations in task tabs; debugger supports screenshots and trusted browser input; nativeMessaging connects the companion; tabGroups labels tasks; storage preserves enablement and ownership; alarms reconnect an enabled companion. Incognito use is disabled. There is no cookies, browsing-history, downloads, clipboard, microphone or camera permission.
For extension privacy questions, contact privacy@awre.ai. The company privacy policy is at awre.ai/privacy. This browser-specific disclosure explains the extension and companion data path.