About CookieVault
TL;DR: CookieVault is a small, independent team building open-source browser-privacy tools. We run no ads, sell no data, and publish all code under the MIT license. We are funded by Pro subscriptions and nothing else.
CookieVault is an independent open-source project founded in 2026 to fill the gap left by EditThisCookie and Cookie AutoDelete — two trusted cookie extensions that became unavailable within months of each other. We build modern Manifest V3 extensions with end-to-end encrypted sync, fully open source, on a business model that does not depend on tracking the people who use them.
What we believe
In short: Cookies are user infrastructure, and the tools to manage them should be open-source, auditable, and trustworthy. A privacy tool that monetizes your data has its incentives backwards.
Three principles drive every decision:
- Auditability over assertion — we publish the code and ship reproducible builds so you can verify our claims rather than take them on faith.
- Alignment over extraction — funded by subscriptions, not advertising, so the product improves for users instead of for advertisers.
- Honesty over hype — our comparison pages name competitors’ genuine strengths, our footnotes link real sources, and our placeholders are labeled as placeholders.
Who we are
In short: A small team — founder, engineering, and an independent security reviewer — with backgrounds in browser engineering, applied cryptography, and privacy research. Real bios and verified links publish before launch.
The founders are independent open-source developers with a combined background in browser-extension engineering, applied cryptography, and privacy research. Technical content is reviewed by a separate security reviewer before publication, per our two-reviewer standard for anything touching the cryptographic or cookie-handling boundary. Full profiles live on the team pages:
How we are funded
In short: Pro subscriptions only. No VC, no ads, no data sale, no telemetry revenue. The incentive is to make a tool worth paying for, not to harvest the free tier.
| Revenue source | Used? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Pro / Team subscriptions | Yes | Aligns incentives with users |
| Venture capital | No | Avoids pressure to monetize data |
| Advertising | No | Conflicts with a privacy product |
| Data sale / licensing | No | Forbidden by our no-sale pledge |
| Telemetry / analytics SDKs | No | The extension ships zero trackers |
Where to find us
GitHub for code, email for support and disclosure, and the team pages for who we are. Full channels on the contact page.
See also
- Open source — repositories, license, reproducible builds
- Security — encryption design and disclosure policy
- No-sale pledge — our permanent data commitment
- Privacy policy — what we collect and never collect
- Contact — support, security, press
- Pricing — how the funding model works in practice