Privacy
We collect as little as we can. You need no account to use VBDehype, and we never sell anything that identifies you.
Last updated: November 4, 2026
What we keep
When you ask for a new investigation, we keep the words you typed with it, so we can run it and show you its progress. We store nothing with them that identifies you: no name, no account, no IP address. A finished investigation is deleted after 30 days, and backup copies of our database are deleted within a further 35 days; the report it produced stays on the site.
While you type in the search box, your words are sent to us to suggest products we have already investigated. We do not store them.
We count visits by country. When you arrive at VBDehype from a search engine, another site, a bookmark or a typed address, Cloudflare tells us your country and we add one to that country's total for the day. We keep only these daily totals per country, for a little over a year. Nothing about you is stored with them: no IP address, no cookie, and not the pages you read.
We also count how often each product we have investigated is searched for, per country and day. We keep only these totals, for a little over a year: not the words you typed, and nothing about you.
What other companies receive
When you ask for a new investigation, the words you typed are sent to the companies that run our searches and our AI models, today Tavily, DeepSeek and Anthropic, so the investigation can run. They do not receive your IP address or anything else about you. Each handles what it receives under its own terms, and some may keep it or use it to improve their services. So please type only the name of a product, not personal details.
How we use totals
Daily totals like these identify no one. We use them to decide what to investigate and, in future, which products and store offers to show in each country. We may also publish or sell summaries of them, such as the most searched products in a market. We leave out numbers so small that they could point to a person.
Protection against abuse
Each new investigation costs us money, so one visitor may start only a limited number per day. To count them, we turn your IP address and the date into a scrambled code with a secret key. The code cannot be turned back into your address, the same visitor gets an unrelated code the next day, and we delete the counts within three days. The same code, never the address, also lets us slow down programs that ask for search suggestions much faster than a person types. Reading reports and searching are never counted.
When you start a new investigation, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that the request comes from a person and not a program. For this check Cloudflare receives technical signals from your browser, such as your IP address and browser type, and uses them to tell people from programs and to improve that check. We receive only its answer.
Technical records
VBDehype runs on Cloudflare's network. Like any website, it receives your IP address to send you the page. Cloudflare keeps short technical records of each request, such as the address of the page requested, for at most 7 days; we use them only to find faults and keep the site working.
Cookies
We set no advertising or tracking cookies and use no analytics service. If you choose the light or dark theme, your choice is saved in your own browser and is never sent to us.
Videos
Some reports show a YouTube video. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play. When you do, the video plays in YouTube's own player in its privacy-enhanced mode, and YouTube receives what it needs to play the video.
We use YouTube API Services to find these videos. How Google uses data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
Stores
Pictures in store offers are loaded from the store's own servers, so the store can see that your browser asked for them. When you follow a store link, you leave VBDehype and the store's own privacy policy applies.
What we never do
We never sell anything that identifies you, and we never track your exact location. We keep no record of what any one person reads or searches, and we show no personalised ads. If we ever offer accounts, that will need your consent, and this page will change first.
Questions and deletion
Because we store nothing that identifies you, there is usually nothing of yours to delete. If you think we hold data about you, or you want words you typed removed, write to us and we will act on it.
Changes to this page
When we change what we collect, we change this page first, and the date at the top changes with it.