Slow Dopamine privacy policy

Last updated: October 11, 2026

Slow Dopamine is a Chrome extension that blocks or limits websites you choose. This policy explains what it stores, where, and why.

In short: everything stays in your browser. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else. There are no accounts, no analytics, no ads and no tracking.

What the extension stores

All of it is kept with Chrome's extension storage, on your device only:

Data	Why	How long
The websites you add (domain, name, icon) and their settings	To apply the limits you chose	Until you remove the site or uninstall
Screen time per listed site per day (milliseconds on screen)	The time stats on the dashboard and in each site's panel	30 days, older days are deleted automatically
Timed access state (time used, when a lock ends)	To run the allowed time and the cooldown	Until the window resets or the site is removed
"Pause before entering" counts (pauses shown and walked through per day) and when a listed site was last on screen	The "you turned back X of Y times" stat, and deciding when to ask again	30 days
Which open tabs already went through a pause	So a tab you let in isn't asked again	Until the browser closes
Timer position on screen, light/dark theme, interface language, last quote shown, "How it works" dismissed	Interface preferences	Until you uninstall

Removing a website from your list deletes its screen time and pause history. Uninstalling the extension deletes everything.

What the extension reads

The address of the pages you open. The extension runs on all websites because you can add any website to your list. On each page it only compares the page's host name with your list. On sites that aren't on your list it does nothing else. It never reads page content, form input, passwords, cookies or keystrokes.
Whether a listed site is visible on screen, so only real on-screen time counts.

Network requests

The extension makes only one kind of request: when you add a website, the dashboard downloads that website's home page and its icon, so the site's real icon can be shown. The request goes straight to that website, without your cookies (credentials: omit), and nothing from your data is included. If it fails, Chrome's own icon cache is used instead.

No data is ever sent to the developer or to any third party. The extension contains no remote code.

Sharing and selling

Your data is not sold, shared, transferred, or used for advertising, credit decisions or any purpose other than the extension's single purpose of limiting the websites you choose.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new date.

Contact

Questions: kayadevstudio@gmail.com