Dane
Privacy
This policy covers the Dane browser, built on Firefox ESR. It applies to Dane downloaded from dane.surf, dogecoin.surf, or pepecoin.surf. Effective 10 November 2026. dogecoin.surf and pepecoin.surf also have their own website policies.
Summary
Dane has no account of its own, and we do not run an analytics service that receives usage data from the app. Your bookmarks, history, passwords, cookies, settings and chain-node data are stored on your computer. Dane still makes network connections to work as a browser, to look up .doge and .pepe names, to check for updates, and — in current builds — to fetch New Tab tile previews as described below.
New Tab tile previews at startup
Current Dane builds use Firefox’s default Top Sites tiles on the New Tab page. At startup, stock Firefox may fetch preview images of those default tiles. In this build the default tiles include dogecoin.surf, pepecoin.surf, greatdane.doge and grokipedia.com, so those sites may receive a request when Dane starts. This is ordinary Firefox Top Sites behavior, not a separate Dane analytics service. You can change or remove tiles from the New Tab page.
Telemetry and data collection
Dane turns off Firefox telemetry, health reports, usage pings, Normandy and Shield studies, and New Tab telemetry by default. We run no analytics service for the app and receive no usage data from it. You can review the data collection settings in Dane’s settings.
Stored on your computer
Bookmarks, history, saved passwords, cookies, settings and the chain nodes’ data are stored locally: browser data in your Dane profile, and chain-node data in the GreatDANE application-data folder (on a Mac, ~/Library/Application Support/GreatDANE). If you import from Firefox, the import reads your Firefox profile on the same computer and copies the data into Dane locally. We do not receive it. Dane includes Firefox Sync. If you choose to sign in to a Mozilla account, your synced data is encrypted and stored on Mozilla’s servers under Mozilla’s policies.
Network connections
- Chain nodes. Dane runs a node for Dogecoin and one for Pepecoin on your computer. Each connects to public peers on its chain to read name records. First contacts are seed hosts (for DogeNet dogenet.shibpost.com and seed.dogecoin.services; for PepeNet pepenet.shibpost.com and net.pepecoin.services), then other peers on that network. Like any peer-to-peer node, those peers see your IP address. You can turn each node off in Dane’s settings. By default each node also accepts incoming peer connections on its chain’s port (Pepecoin 33874, Dogecoin 22556); you can turn listening off per node in Dane’s settings. The nodes do not download updates or chain snapshots over HTTP.
- Name sites. When you open a .doge or .pepe site, Dane connects to the address published in that name’s record, which is run by the name’s owner, not by us.
- Updates. Dane checks for updates at https://pepecoin.surf/dane/update/…. The automatic update check sends product, version, build ID, target, locale and channel. The servers log only product, version, platform and channel, plus the request status, the user agent and a masked IP (/24 for IPv4, /48 for IPv6). Build ID, locale, query strings and referrers are not logged. Logs are kept about 14 days, are not linked to an account or device, and are not shared. Requests to pepecoin.surf, dogecoin.surf and dane.surf, including the Dane start page and New Tab tile previews, are logged with the same masked IP (/24 for IPv4, /48 for IPv6) and kept about 14 days. Entries from before Nov 10, 2026 hold full IPs until they rotate out around Nov 25. No check happens while the DisableAppUpdate policy is on.
- Standard Firefox services. Like Firefox, Dane keeps some standard browser services, which connect to Mozilla or its providers. These include add-on and system add-on updates (addons.mozilla.org, aus5.mozilla.org); media plugin downloads (OpenH264 from Cisco, Widevine from Google); Web Push (push.services.mozilla.com); captive-portal checks (detectportal.firefox.com); region detection (location.services.mozilla.com); remote settings and non-sponsored Firefox Suggest (firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com); the New Tab weather widget (merino.services.mozilla.com) where available; Safe Browsing (Google); Firefox Sync if you sign in; and location services only when a site asks and you allow it. Those services follow Mozilla’s policies.
- Safe Browsing. Dane downloads lists of dangerous sites from Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.googleapis.com) and checks partial URL hashes against it. For some downloaded files it sends file metadata to Google (sb-ssl.google.com). You can turn this off under Privacy & Security.
- Websites you visit. Ordinary websites receive what any browser sends them.
Start page
The currently published build opens pepecoin.surf as its start page, so that site’s server sees a normal page request when Dane starts. You can change the start page in Dane’s settings.
Contact
Questions about this policy: email support@dane.surf or open an issue at github.com/UsaRandom. See also Support.