Privacy model

tl;dr distinguishes between public and private summaries. Only public summaries appear on share pages and in trending aggregates.

A summary is private if any of the following is true:

• The domain is on the auto-private list (e.g. Gmail, internal SaaS, anything clearly behind auth). Internally stored as privacy_reason = 'auto_domain'.
• The user marked it private (extension UI or account setting). Stored as privacy_reason = 'user_set'.
• The user enabled "private by default" in their account settings.

A summary is public when privacy_reason IS NULL. This is the filter used for all trending queries, share-page indexing, and the corpus served from llms.tl-dr.cc.

Private summaries never appear in:

• The trending hubs at tl-dr.cc/trending/*.
• Share pages at tl-dr.cc/s/{slug}.
• The sitemap.
• The machine-readable corpus at llms.tl-dr.cc.

See the full Privacy Policy for the legal version.