Quiet Banners · privacy & help

Less clutter.
Kept on your phone.

Effective November 5, 2026. Publisher: Rebellion LLC dba This Is My Password. Applies to Quiet Banners 0.2.0-beta through 0.4.1-beta.

Quiet Banners is an experimental Android helper for specific English Google Chrome tab-close and full-screen banners. This page describes the app; website downloads and support messages are separate services.

Accessibility access

You choose whether to enable the Accessibility service in Android’s settings. That access grants broad capabilities to read screen content and perform gestures. Quiet Banners handles Chrome events only, checks for the selected native tab-close, YouTube, and embedded X/Twitter banners, and attempts a dismissal action or a swipe. It does not click Undo or press Back. A swipe can interrupt a touch, and there is a small chance the foreground app changes immediately after the final check.

What is read and stored

The app inspects Chrome’s visible interface to recognize matching banner text, controls, and position. It saves your banner choices, whether dismissal is enabled, an aggregate count of dismissal attempts, and your explicit pending setup request until it completes or expires, in its private local preferences. A matching banner’s text, which can include a closed tab’s title, is briefly held in memory to avoid duplicate swipes. It is not written to browsing-history files or logs. The Full-screen check in Help & privacy holds only a fixed outcome label in memory and resets when the service restarts. It does not save a screen recording or a history of checks.

The app has no internet permission, accounts, advertising, analytics, cloud storage, notification access, or location permission. It does not send screen content, banner text, tab titles, or browsing history to Rebellion LLC or anyone else. Opening Privacy & help launches your browser; that browser handles the website request separately.

Your controls

Dismissal stays off until you choose Enable and continue and approve Accessibility access in Android. It starts only after the service connects. The explicit setup request expires after ten minutes; if it expires before connection, tap Resume after setup. You can choose each banner type separately, tap Pause to stop, and tap Resume to start again. Pausing does not revoke Accessibility access. To remove access, open Settings → Accessibility → Installed apps → Quiet Banners and turn it off. If banners last longer or gestures interfere with your use, disable the service there.

Uninstalling or clearing the app’s storage removes its saved preferences and counter. The app disables backup in its Android configuration. Version 0.2.1-beta and later also explicitly exclude app data from cloud backup and phone transfers; update an earlier beta to get this hardening. There is no in-app cloud recovery or browsing-history export.

Device protection and beta limits

Android’s app sandbox protects the private preferences. Use your phone’s lock to protect physical access. Compatibility varies with the phone, Chrome version, language, and layout. This is dismissal after appearance, not a guarantee that a banner is prevented or successfully removed. Supported full-screen reminders are checked again briefly around window changes and rotation, with at most one retry while the same native reminder still matches. A canceled or unconfirmed swipe is not retried. The counter records attempts; a reminder absent on recheck does not prove what removed it.

Website and support

Cloudflare hosts this website and processes network requests, download requests, security diagnostics, and website performance measurements separately from the offline app. Read the website’s contact and site notes for those services.

If you contact hi@rebellioncompany.com, the email providers process what you send so we can respond. The app does not automatically attach screenshots, browsing information, or diagnostics. Share only what you intend to send.

Questions or changes

Use the contact page for questions or beta feedback. This page will be updated if the app’s data practices change.