Supporter Subscription

Most browsers and search engines are free because you are the product. They are funded by ads, sponsored results, and building a profile of what you search for and where you go. That business model only works if the company watches what you do.

WebLibre takes the opposite approach. Instead of selling your attention or your data, it asks the people who get value from it to pay a small, predictable amount.

That choice has a direct benefit for you:

In short, Supporter exists so WebLibre can offer useful online services without turning you into an advertising target.

Supporter includes two things: a better search experience and encrypted sync for your WebLibre setup.

You also get the usual account controls: check your status, manage billing, cancel, export your data, and delete your account.

The rest of this page explains how each part works and why it is built this way.

WebLibre Search is WebLibre’s own search service, built right into the browser. It looks and feels like an ordinary search engine, but it works differently under the hood.

A typical search engine sends your query to one company that runs one index and one ranking system. WebLibre Search instead asks several independent search sources, blends their results, and applies WebLibre’s own ranking on top. You get broader coverage and more room for smaller, independent sites to show up — without configuring any search settings yourself.

It is built around a few simple ideas:

This is the part that makes WebLibre Search different, so it is worth understanding.

A helpful way to picture it: think of an arcade. You pay the front desk and get a handful of tokens. Later you walk up to a game and drop in a token. The game accepts the token and runs — but it has no idea who bought it. The desk knows you paid; the games only see anonymous tokens.

WebLibre Search works the same way:

The result: your account is used to receive credits, but the token spent on a search isn’t tied to your login. By design, a spent token cannot be traced back to the account it came from.

On top of that, the search service is built to avoid keeping raw search logs. By default it does not store your search queries, the pages you ask it to fetch, your IP address, or your tokens in its logs.

What this protects you from, and what it doesn’t:

Search modes change which kinds of results WebLibre prioritizes. You can switch between them at any time without touching technical settings.

These are maintained result profiles, not just labels. WebLibre can improve them over time on the server side, so search quality can get better without you changing anything or updating the app.

WebLibre Search blends results from a curated mix of sources, which currently can include:

WebLibre integrates with each source through its official, supported interface. This keeps results reliable and consistent, and helps the service stay stable over time.

WebLibre then applies its own ranking to downrank spam and large commercial patterns, and to lift smaller or public-interest sites in the modes where that fits. Where a source supports it, sponsored and advertising placements are filtered out, so results are ranked on relevance rather than paid placement.

The sources read your query text because they need it to return results. They do not receive your WebLibre Account login, and the token you spent is not linkable back to your account.

The exact source mix can change over time as WebLibre improves the service and as source availability changes.

WebLibre Search can do more than return a list of links. For supported results, WebLibre can fetch a page through its own servers and hand it to you in the form you choose, so you can inspect or save a result before opening the original site yourself.

Every preview is a static copy — a snapshot frozen at the moment WebLibre fetched the page. It is not a live, interactive connection to the site, so scripts do not keep running and the page cannot change under you after it is captured.

This gives you a safer way to look at a result:

Supporter also includes encrypted sync for WebLibre’s own settings.

When you set it up, WebLibre creates a sync key from your account password on your device. Your settings are encrypted before they are uploaded, so the server only ever stores encrypted snapshots — not readable settings.

You can store and restore:

This is handy when you use several profiles or devices and want to carry your setup with you.

This is separate from Sync. Sync handles browser data like tabs, bookmarks, and history. Account sync handles WebLibre-specific settings and preferences, and is available to active Supporters.

Your Supporter status then appears in Settings > WebLibre Account. The page may keep checking for a short time after checkout, because payment confirmation can arrive a little later than the page return.

From Settings > WebLibre Account, open Manage Subscription. Depending on your status, you may see:

To cancel, use Cancel contracts here and confirm with Cancel now. Ordinary cancellation keeps your access until the end of the current billing period. You receive an email confirming the cancellation was received.

WebLibre stays a full privacy-focused browser without Supporter. Browsing, your privacy controls, and the rest of WebLibre’s built-in features all keep working without it.

Supporter is simply for people who want WebLibre Search, encrypted account sync, and a way to fund the browser that doesn’t depend on ads or tracking.