Zenfeed Privacy and Permissions

No account required You do not create a Zenfeed account to use the MVP.

No cloud AI in MVP or V2 Filtering rules run locally in the browser. Feed text is not sent to a cloud AI service.

No feed export Zenfeed does not export, sell, or publish your feed content.

What Zenfeed does

Zenfeed reads supported feed surfaces in your browser and applies local rules to hide or collapse matching feed items. Current supported surfaces are LinkedIn feed pages, X/twitter.com home timelines, and YouTube's Home, Subscriptions, and Search pages. Current rules include promoted or ad labels, suggested content labels, custom keywords, and the timed Rest from AI mode.

Zenfeed processes supported page content locally in your browser, including visible feed text, short labels, image alt text, and accessibility labels, to decide whether a feed item matches enabled filters.

In collapse mode, Zenfeed replaces a matched feed item with a small restore bar so you can show it again.

What Zenfeed does not do

No scraping or feed export.
No cloud AI processing in the MVP or planned V2 scope.
No account, login, or profile created with Zenfeed.
No messaging, commenting, liking, following, posting, or other social automation.
No backend service, analytics, tracking pixels, or remote rule sync in the MVP.

Zenfeed does not send, sell, rent, or share supported-page content, custom keywords, extension settings, or local hidden-count state with the developer or any third party.

Why Zenfeed needs permissions

Chrome extensions must ask for permission before reading or changing pages on specific websites. Zenfeed asks only for the sites it currently supports and the extension APIs it uses.

Host permissions for LinkedIn feed pages, X/twitter.com home timelines, and YouTube

Needed so Zenfeed can inspect feed items on the supported feed surfaces and hide or collapse matches directly in the page. The extension does not use these permissions to scrape, export, message, like, follow, or automate actions.

storage

Used to save your local settings, such as enabled filters, custom keywords, collapse mode, Rest from AI timer state, and local hidden-count state.

alarms

Used to end Rest from AI at the selected time and update the toolbar badge countdown while that temporary mode is active.

What is stored locally

Zenfeed stores settings in chrome.storage.local on your device. This can include:

Whether promoted/ad filtering is enabled.
Whether suggested-content filtering is enabled.
Your custom keyword list.
Collapse mode preference.
Rest from AI active state, end time, and selected duration.
Local hidden-count values used by the popup UI.

Zenfeed does not store a copy of your feed, your messages, your contacts, or your LinkedIn/X/YouTube account credentials. Local settings remain on your device until you change them, clear extension data, or remove the extension.

How to remove Zenfeed and its data

Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
Find Zenfeed.
Choose Remove to uninstall the extension. Chrome removes the extension and its local extension storage.
If you loaded Zenfeed manually during testing, remove the unpacked extension from the same page.

Support

Visit the Zenfeed support page for supported surfaces, troubleshooting steps, and what to include in privacy-safe bug reports.