Topic Feeds for Instagram · Chrome extension

Privacy policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026

What the extension stores

All of this is kept in the extension's local storage in your Chrome profile, on your device:

• Your feeds: their names and the Instagram usernames you add to each one.
• Your settings: layout (compact or comfortable), language, and similar preferences.
• Rating prompt: how many days you've opened your feeds, and whether you've rated the extension, asked not to be asked, or hidden the request for now. It decides when to ask once for a rating; nothing about it leaves your browser.
• Saved posts: for each account in your feeds, up to 48 recent public posts: the image address, caption, time and link, plus the address of the account's public profile picture, read from the same page. Saving them lets your feeds appear instantly.
• Check status: when each account was last checked, whether it was private or unavailable, and when it will be checked again.
• A short activity log: the last 300 lines about checks (such as “@name: HTTP 200”), kept for troubleshooting, plus the time you last opened your feeds. Background checks are skipped if you haven't opened them in the last hour.
• The date of the last usage count: so the daily visit described below is counted at most once a day.
• Sync sign-in, only if you sign in: your Google account's email address, the codes that keep you signed in, and a copy of your feeds as the sync server last held them, so changes made in two places can be combined.

The extension doesn't use Chrome sync, so none of this is copied to your Google account. If you turn on sync (below), your feeds are copied to the extension's sync server; nothing else on this list is.

What the extension sends, and to whom

The extension talks to Instagram (www.instagram.com), Instagram's image servers (cdninstagram.com and fbcdn.net) and Plausible Analytics (plausible.io), for anonymous usage counts. If you turn on sync, it also talks to Google, to sign you in, and to its sync server, run on Supabase. It uses no advertising services.

• Public profile pages. To show a feed, it requests the public profile page of each account in it, without your Instagram sign-in. When you move through a post with several photos, it requests that post's public page the same way, for the other photos. Instagram can see that these pages were requested from your network, as with any visit to its site.
• Images. Post images and profile pictures load from Instagram's image servers.
• Accounts you follow, only when you ask. During setup, “Pick from accounts you follow” reads your Instagram following list. When you click it, the extension uses an open instagram.com tab (or opens one in the background for a moment) and requests the list from Instagram there, with your existing sign-in in this browser. The list is shown for you to pick from. It is never saved to storage and never sent anywhere other than back to you. The extension never sees or stores your Instagram password.
• The profile you're viewing. When you click the toolbar button, the extension reads the address of the current tab to see whether an Instagram profile is open. If one is, it offers to add that account to a feed. It isn't saved unless you do.
• Finding your feeds page. Anywhere else, the toolbar button opens your feeds. If they're already open in a tab, the extension switches to that tab instead of opening another one. To find it, it looks for its own page among your open tabs. It doesn't save or send the addresses of your other tabs.
• Sync, only if you sign in. Settings › Sync lets you sign in with Google so your feeds are the same in every Chrome where you use the extension. Google's sign-in window opens, and Google tells the extension your email address; it asks for nothing else from your Google account. The sync server then keeps your email address and, for each feed, its name, the Instagram usernames in it and its place in the list. Saved posts, settings, the rating prompt and your following list are never sent. The server is hosted by Supabase (supabase.com) for the developer, who uses it only to sync your feeds. Google's sign-in is covered by Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.
• Anonymous usage counts. The extension sends a few events to Plausible Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service, so the developer can see how many people use it and which features matter. The events are: opening your feeds (counted once a day), installing, finishing setup, creating or deleting a feed, adding an account from the toolbar button, Instagram asking the extension to slow down, seeing the Plus plan offer, and opening Plus checkout. Each event carries only the extension's version, whether it came from the Chrome Web Store, and a fixed word or a rounded count where one applies, such as where a feed was created or “2-5” accounts in it. It never includes usernames, feed names, captions, posts or your following list. No cookies or identifiers are stored for this. Like any web request, it reaches Plausible with your IP address and browser type. Plausible uses them to count unique visitors and to work out your country and browser, and doesn't store your IP address. See plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics.

Instagram's handling of its requests is covered by Meta's privacy policy: privacycenter.instagram.com/policy

What the extension does not do

• It doesn't sell or share your data. The developer receives only the anonymous usage counts described above and, if you turn on sync, your feeds and email address, used only to sync them.
• It doesn't read your browsing on other sites.
• It doesn't post, like, follow or message on Instagram for you.
• It doesn't use your data for advertising, profiling or credit decisions.

Keeping and deleting your data

Your data stays until you change it. Removing an account from every feed deletes its saved posts, and deleting a feed removes it, from the sync server too if you use sync. Uninstalling the extension deletes everything it stored in your browser. Signing out of sync keeps your feeds in this browser and stops copying them. To delete your sync account and everything the sync server holds for it, email the address below. Usage counts are kept by Plausible only as aggregate statistics, with nothing that links them to you.

Changes to this policy

If what the extension handles changes, this policy will be updated before or with that release, and the date above will change. A change that sends data somewhere new will also be described in the extension's store listing.

Not affiliated with Instagram

Topic Feeds for Instagram is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Instagram or Meta.

Contact

Questions about privacy: 1220aav@gmail.com