Privacy

Dawn has no accounts, no analytics, and no ads. What you do in it is your business.

In the app

Your tabs, spaces, history, and settings are stored on your Mac, in Dawn’s folder in Application Support.
Dawn doesn’t send us anything. There’s no usage tracking and no crash reporting service.
The sites you visit and the search engine you pick (Google, DuckDuckGo, or Bing) see what they would see in any browser.
As you type in the command bar, what you’ve typed goes to your search engine, which sends back suggestions, as in Chrome and Safari. Dawn sends it without cookies, so the engine can’t tie it to your account, and never from an incognito window. Web addresses with a path and addresses on your own network aren’t sent. Turn suggestions off in Settings › General › Search suggestions.
Some things talk to Google, as they do in Chrome: installing and updating extensions from the Chrome Web Store, downloading the Widevine module that streaming sites need for protected playback, and fetching Chrome’s list of revoked certificates every few hours. None of these say which sites you visit.
Every few hours Dawn asks GitHub whether there’s a newer version of Dawn, and downloads it from there if there is. That says nothing about the sites you visit either.
Incognito windows keep their cookies and history in memory only, and forget them when you close the window.

No cookies, no analytics, and no third-party scripts.
No web fonts: the site is set in your device’s own system font, so nothing is fetched from a font service.
The company hosting the site may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested.

Write to [email protected] with anything you’d like to know.

Dawn isn’t out yet. This page will grow with the first release and say exactly what each version does.What each version changes is in the changelog.