Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 August 2026

Resistor collects no data. It has no servers, no analytics, no account system, and no third-party services of any kind. Nothing you do in the extension is transmitted anywhere.

What is stored, and where

Everything stays inside your own browser:

• Your settings — the sites you chose to block, difficulty levels, schedule, daily allowance and your “back to work” address — are kept in Chrome’s storage.sync, so they follow your Chrome profile across your own devices. This is Google’s built-in sync; it does not pass through us.
• Your counters — how many times you turned back, your streak, and how many minutes of access you granted yourself — are kept in storage.local on the device itself, for roughly 90 days.

Whatever you type into the “what were you about to do?” box is never stored or sent anywhere. It exists only on screen, to make you think for a second, and it is gone the moment the page closes.

Permissions, and why each one exists

• Access to specific websites — requested only when you add a site, and only for that site. Resistor needs it to redirect that site to the pause screen. It does not request access to websites you have not blocked, and it hands the permission back automatically when you remove a site from your list.
• declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess — lets Chrome apply the blocking rules itself. Resistor describes the rules to Chrome; it never sees your traffic.
• storage — to keep the settings and counters described above.
• alarms — to re-block a site when the time you granted yourself runs out, and to switch blocking on and off at your scheduled hours.
• activeTab — so the “Block this site” button in the toolbar popup knows which site you are looking at. It applies only while you have the popup open, and only to that one tab.

What Resistor never does

• It does not collect, store, or transmit your browsing history.
• It does not sell or share data with anyone — there is no data to sell.
• It does not use your information for advertising, credit assessment, or any purpose unrelated to blocking the sites you asked it to block.
• It contains no analytics, telemetry, tracking pixels, or remote code.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling Resistor removes it all. Chrome revokes the site permissions and clears the extension’s storage. You can also clear individual sites at any time from the settings page, or review and revoke permissions yourself at chrome://extensions.

Children

Resistor is a general-audience productivity tool. Since it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date above changes with it, and any change that affects what the extension can access would also require Chrome to ask your permission again.

Contact

Questions or concerns: technerdxp@gmail.com.