Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 28, 2026
Summary
Scroll Stop does not collect, sell or share any personal data, and everything it stores stays on your device. The one exception is the optional removal notification described below, which only runs if you set an accountability contact.
What is stored, and where
- How much time you spent on Instagram and X today, and when the current session started.
- Your settings: daily limit, curfew time, and whether the extensions page is locked.
- A salted PBKDF2-SHA-256 hash of your password. The password itself is never stored and can't be read back from the hash.
All of this lives only in your browser's local extension storage. It is never sent to the developer or anyone else. Removing the extension deletes it.
Optional removal notification
During setup you can enter an accountability contact's email address. It is stored on your device and shown in the extension's popup, so the person using the browser knows about it. If the extension is then removed, the browser opens a page on this website that sends one email to that contact through the email service FormSubmit. The email contains only the fact that the extension was removed, the browser name and the time. The contact's address is passed in the part of the link that is not sent to this website's server. A "Send test email" button sends the same kind of message once for testing. Nothing else is ever sent.
Permissions and why they're needed
- Tabs: to tell whether the active tab is Instagram or X, and to close or replace those tabs when a limit is reached.
- Access to instagram.com and x.com (and twitter.com): to show the 10-second countdown on the page before it closes. The extension doesn't read or change anything else on these sites.
- Scripting: to display that countdown.
- Storage: to save your usage time and settings on your device.
- Alarms: to check time limits on schedule.
No tracking
The extension has no analytics, ads or remote code, and makes no network requests of its own. The only data ever sent is the optional removal notification described above.
Contact
Questions? Open an issue at github.com/c-voelkle/instagram-time-limiter.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram, Meta or X.