Privacy Policy — Attention Loop

Last updated: 2026-06-20

Attention Loop is a personal browser attention manager. It is local-first by design: the data it records never leaves your computer.

What it stores

All of the following is kept only on your device, in the browser's local extension storage:

• Foreground browsing time — for each site you visit, the registrable domain (e.g. youtube.com), how long it was the active, focused tab, a visit count, and an hour-of-day breakdown.
• Your rules — the level (Encouraged / Accepted / Limited / Blocked) you assign to each domain, and any pending changes.
• Settings — your chosen time limits, cooldowns, and similar preferences.

What it does NOT do

• It does not transmit your data anywhere. The extension makes no network requests to any server, analytics service, or third party.
• It does not read, collect, or store the contents of the pages you visit, your keystrokes, passwords, form data, or personal messages.
• It does not track you across sites for advertising, and contains no ads or trackers.
• It does not sell or share any data — there is none to sell or share, because nothing leaves your machine.

Permissions, and why each is needed

• Tabs / host access (<all_urls>) — to know which site is in the foreground (to attribute time) and to enforce blocking/limits on the sites you choose. Page content is not read.
• declarativeNetRequest — to redirect domains you mark "Blocked" to a local block page.
• idle — to stop counting time when you step away, so usage isn't over-counted.
• alarms — for periodic internal maintenance (applying scheduled changes; self-healing the tracker).
• storage / unlimitedStorage — to keep the local log and your rules on your device.

Optional future feature

A planned, off-by-default analysis feature would summarize your usage. If you ever enable it, it would send only aggregate counts (e.g. "youtube.com: 38 minutes across 9 visits") — never full URLs or page content — to an AI service, and only after you explicitly provide your own API key. Until then, no network requests are made. This document will be updated before that feature ships.

Removing your data

Uninstalling the extension deletes all of its stored data.

Contact

Questions: jikuolu@gmail.com