Media Tracker — Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Media Tracker is a Chrome extension for tracking movies, TV shows, and anime you're watching, want to watch, or have watched. This page explains what data the extension handles and why.

What's stored on your device

Your tracked titles, ratings, written reviews, watch status, episode progress, streaming site list, and app settings are stored using Chrome's built-in storage.sync API. This data is tied to your own Google account and syncs across your own devices — it is not sent to, or accessible by, the developer of this extension.

What's sent to third-party services, and why

To look up titles, posters, summaries, and ratings, the extension sends search queries (the title text you type or select) to the following third-party APIs. Each is used only for the specific purpose listed:

• The Movie Database (TMDB) — movie and TV search, details, browsing, trailers, and similar-title suggestions. See TMDB's privacy policy.
• OMDb API — Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb ratings.
• AniList — anime search, details, browsing, trailers, and watch-order relationships. See AniList's terms.
• TVMaze — TV show search and episode data.

These requests include only the search text or title identifiers needed to return results — no personal information is attached to them by the extension.

The current tab (used for two specific features)

Media Tracker requests Chrome's activeTab permission, which gives it access to your currently open tab only when you actively interact with the extension — Chrome doesn't grant this automatically or continuously. It's used for two specific things, both of which can be turned off or simply not used:

• Automatic site detection: when you update your progress on something you're watching (for example, using the "+1" button), the extension checks the domain of your current tab (e.g. netflix.com) and, if you have this turned on, automatically links that site to the title so you don't have to set it manually. Only the domain is read for this, never the full URL or page content, and it can be turned off entirely in Settings.
• "Grab from current tab" button: pressing this button on something you're tracking reads your current tab's full URL and saves it as that title's episode link. It also reads the tab's title text and tries to detect a season/episode number from it (or from the URL, if the title doesn't have one) using common patterns like "S1E5" — if found, your tracked progress is updated to match; if not, the episode count simply advances by one instead. The tab's title text itself is only used in this moment to look for a pattern — it isn't stored or sent anywhere.

Neither feature reads page content, and both only ever run at the moment you take an action — never continuously or in the background.

Background checks and notifications

With your permission (granted via the notifications and alarms permissions), Media Tracker checks roughly every 4 hours — while Chrome is running, even if the extension's popup isn't open — for new episodes of shows or anime you're currently watching, and upcoming episode or movie releases for things on your lists. These checks query the same third-party APIs listed above and show a local Chrome notification if there's something new.

Separately, if you've set up Community, Media Tracker checks for new activity addressed to you — shared reviews since you were last in the Community tab, recommendations sent to you, new followers, and comments on reviews you've shared — whenever you open the extension or visit the Community tab. This check only runs while the popup is actually open, not in the background, and shows a local Chrome notification the same way.

No data about what you're being notified of is sent anywhere beyond what these checks already require. Each of these — episode alerts, upcoming reminders, and Community notifications — can be turned off independently in Settings.

The Community feature (optional)

Media Tracker includes an optional Community feature for sharing with other users. It's a single service operated by the developer of this extension (using Supabase, a third-party database and authentication platform) — not something you need to set up yourself. Using it is optional; your tracked titles, ratings, and reviews stay entirely local and private unless you choose to log in and share. Specifically:

• Account: Community requires creating an account with a real email address and password, so your account and everything tied to it can be recovered if you reinstall the extension or switch devices. Your email is used only for account login and, if you request it, password reset — it is never shown to other users or attached to anything you share; only your display name is public-facing. Display names are locked in at signup and can't be changed afterward, so that they stay reliable for other people searching for or following you.
• Reviews: reviews you explicitly choose to share (title, rating, written comment, optional tags like "spoiler" or "must-watch", your display name, and timestamp) are stored in this database and made visible either publicly to all users of the extension, or privately to members of a specific room, depending on the setting you pick. Nothing is shared automatically — your private ratings and reviews stay local unless you specifically turn on sharing for that review, and you can remove a shared review at any time.
• Comments and reactions: you can leave a written comment, or a lightweight "seen and liked this" reaction, on any shared review you can see — both are visible to anyone who can see that review, and you can delete your own comments at any time.
• Currently-watching status (separate opt-in, off by default): if you turn this on in the Community tab, your current "In Progress" list becomes visible to anyone you share a room with — updated automatically as your progress changes. This is independent of review sharing and can be turned off at any time, which also removes what's already been shared.
• Recommendations: you can send a title suggestion, with an optional note, to people you share a room with. The recipient sees your display name, the title, and your note; you can retract a recommendation you've sent at any time, and either side can remove one after the fact.
• Rooms: if you create or join a room, its other members can see your display name and that you're a member — this is necessary for the room to function as a shared space.
• Finding and following people: your display name is searchable by any other user of Community, not just people you share a room with — this is how the "Find People" feature works. You can follow someone you find this way to add their public activity to a filtered feed view; following doesn't grant access to anything of theirs that wasn't already visible to you, and who you follow (or who follows you) is only visible to the two people in that relationship, not publicly listed.
• Reports: you can report a review you believe is inappropriate. The review's author and the relevant room's creator (but not the general public) can see that a report was filed and remove the reviewed content; the extension's interface doesn't display who filed a report.
• Moderation reach: the single developer-designated administrator account can view and, if necessary, remove any review shared anywhere in Community, including ones shared privately within a room the admin isn't a member of. This exists to handle content that violates the terms both this policy and the Chrome Web Store require, and isn't used for anything else.

Error reporting (admin diagnostic log)

If the extension hits an unexpected error while you're using it, a short technical report — the error message, roughly where it happened, a stack trace, and which part of the extension it came from — is sent to the same database used for Community, and is visible only to the developer's designated administrator account. If you're logged into Community when this happens, the report is linked to your account so a pattern affecting one person specifically can be told apart from one affecting everyone; if you're not logged in, or don't use Community at all, no account link exists. This is purely for identifying and fixing bugs — it doesn't include your tracked titles, reviews, or any other personal content, and reports are capped at a small number per session so a repeating error can't flood the log.

What we don't do

• We don't display ads.
• We don't use analytics or tracking scripts.
• We don't sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
• We don't collect your browsing history outside of the one specific, permission-gated case described above.

Data deletion

Uninstalling the extension removes all locally stored data. If you've used Community, the "Leave" option in the Community tab immediately and permanently deletes everything tied to your account — your profile, every review you've shared, your comments, your watching status, recommendations, reactions, follow relationships, and room memberships. This is self-service; you don't need to contact the developer for this. Your login credential (email and password) is a separate record managed by the authentication system itself and isn't removed by "Leave" — if you'd like that fully deleted as well, contact the developer using the details below.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to: MediaTrackerExt@proton.me