Screen Awesome - The free screen recorder that cannot upload your video

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Screen Awesome after recording a bug report on a page full of client data and realising I had no idea where that video was going. Every capture extension has a privacy policy. Screen Awesome has a limitation instead: host_permissions is empty in its manifest, and Chrome will not let an extension with no host permissions make a request to any server. No account, no telemetry, no sync — not because I promise not to, but because there is nothing in the code that could. You can verify it before installing: chrome://extensions → Screen Awesome → Site access: none. The other half of it is that everything is unlocked. Arrows, blur and redaction, step counters, speech bubbles, crop, text in any system font — the tools that are usually the paid tier. Annotations stay as vectors, so you can move, restyle, re-edit or undo any of them later. Three bits I'm proud of: • Auto-zoom — while you record a tab it samples your clicks, then the studio replays the footage through a virtual camera that glides in on each one. Preview it live, switch it off, or bake it into the export. • MP4 out wherever Chrome can encode it, so the file drops straight into Slack, Docs or Premiere with no conversion step. WebM and GIF export too. • Full-page screenshots that scroll and stitch — including the fixed header/sidebar handling that normally stripes the image. Honest limits: Chrome and Chromium only for now, no Firefox or Safari. Most of my testing has been on Windows. And because everything is local, uninstalling deletes your captures — bulk-download first. It's free, there's no paid tier, and I'm not planning one. What I'd love your take on: does "verifiable" land better than "trust us" for you? And if you make screencasts often — what's the one thing your current tool still makes you do by hand? — Nitin