FocusFeed

vol. iii · privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated — April 19, 2026

Overview

FocusFeed (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is a Chrome extension built to quiet the noisier corners of YouTube — by your own request. This document explains, plainly, what information the extension handles.

What we collect

Data you provide

• Keywords — the words you'd rather not see, stored locally on your device.
• Settings — filter toggles, Shorts preference, streak start date. All local.

Data the extension observes

• Video metadata — titles, descriptions, and channel names on pages you visit.
• Search queries — only when they trigger a keyword match, for classification.
• Usage signals — blocked-today count, streak length. Kept locally only.

Data we never touch

• Your name, email, address, or account details.
• Your browsing outside YouTube.
• Your YouTube login, subscriptions, or watch history.
• Anything from any other website.

How it's used

Content filtering

• Match page titles, descriptions, and channel names against your keywords.
• Hide or redirect videos that match.

AI classification

• Video metadata is sent to our hosted classifier (on Cloudflare Workers).
• No personal or identifying data is attached — only the text being classified.
• The classifier caches responses briefly to avoid repeated lookups for the same video.

Local bookkeeping

• Filter preferences persist across sessions via Chrome's sync storage.
• Streak and daily counts persist via Chrome's local storage.

Where it lives

On your device

• Every user-facing setting — keywords, toggles, streaks — lives in Chrome's own storage.
• Nothing is transmitted to FocusFeed servers. We do not operate a user database.
• Clearing the extension erases everything we'd have kept.

Third parties

• Cloudflare Workers — hosts the classification endpoint. Only metadata passes through.
• OpenAI — the upstream model used by the classifier. Metadata is forwarded and processed per OpenAI's own retention policy.
• No advertising, analytics, or tracking services are used.

In transit

• All network calls use HTTPS.
• The extension itself is sandboxed under Chrome's security model.

Sharing

We don't sell, rent, or trade data. The only parties that see any information at all are:

1. Our classifier — metadata, for the span of a classification call.
2. Its upstream AI provider — same metadata, per their retention policy.
3. A legal authority — only if a binding legal process required it, which has never occurred.

Your controls

• Inspect or clear all stored data via Chrome's extension manager.
• Remove keywords or change filters anytime from the popup.
• Uninstall to erase every local trace. There is nothing to request deletion of elsewhere.

Children

FocusFeed is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect anything from a child under 13. If you believe that happened, please reach out using the contact below.

International use

Processing happens locally on your machine and through the classifier's edge network. Using the extension means you consent to that flow.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll bump the “Last updated” line and post the new version to the GitHub repository. Significant changes will appear in the extension's update notes.

Technical notes

Chrome permissions

• storage — for local preferences and streak state.
• tabs — to redirect blocked videos to the internal block page.
• alarms — for periodic break-reminder nudges.
• Host — youtube.com — so the content script can read page metadata and filter it.

Retention

• Local data — until you clear it or uninstall.
• Classifier requests — held briefly in-memory per the provider's own policy, then discarded.
• Server logs — none, on our side.

Compliance

This policy aims to comply with:

• The Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies.
• GDPR and CCPA principles for data minimization and user control.
• COPPA, by not targeting children under 13.

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