Introduction
MYNT: Material You New Tab is an open-source browser extension designed to enhance the look of your browser’s home page and new tab. Initially built as a personal project using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it became publicly available on both the Chrome and Firefox Web Stores following positive user feedback.

Community Contributions
Developers from the community have contributed via GitHub, adding new features and fixing bugs. Every contribution (pull request) is carefully reviewed, tested, and verified before merging to ensure quality and security.

Data Collection and Permissions
MYNT respects your privacy and focuses only on improving your browsing experience. The extension does not collect, store, or share personal data. All processing happens locally in your browser, with no analytics, tracking scripts, or remote logging.

• Permissions used:
• search: Integrates with the browser’s default search engine.
• bookmarks (optional): Allows displaying bookmarks on the new tab page.
• favicon (optional): Fetches bookmark favicons from the browser cache.
• Browser APIs:
• SpeechRecognition (Web Speech API): Enables voice search; microphone activates only when you click the mic icon, and no voice data is stored.
• Geolocation: Helps improve weather accuracy; access is handled by your browser and not tracked.

External APIs Used
To enhance features, MYNT uses several external services:

• Search Suggestions: Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Wikipedia provide autocomplete suggestions while typing in the search bar.
• Location Detection (IPinfo): Uses your IP to fetch approximate city-level location for weather.
• Weather Updates (WeatherAPI): Retrieves forecasts and location suggestions.
• Random Wallpapers (Lorem Picsum): Supplies high-quality background images.
• Quotes (Multilingual Quotes API): Provides inspirational quotes.
• Favicon Fetching (Google’s Favicon API): Retrieves website icons for shortcuts and bookmarks.

Proxy Server (Optional)
MYNT includes an optional proxy feature (disabled by default) to bypass CORS restrictions for search suggestions.

• Users are encouraged to host their own proxy server for full privacy.
• If left at the default setting, search suggestions may route through the public proxy: https://mynt-proxy.rhythmcorehq.com.

Transparency and Security
The team strives to keep MYNT’s code safe, but like any software, there is always some risk. Users are encouraged to review the source code on GitHub for reassurance and only use the extension if they’re comfortable with its contents.

Thank You
The MYNT team appreciates your trust and hopes the extension makes every new tab a better browsing experience.