Privacy policy

Last updated 10 October 2026. This policy describes Unforget 12.85.13.

Who this covers

This policy covers the Unforget extension for Google Chrome and this website, unforget.inadram.studio. Unforget is made by inadram.studio.

What Unforget keeps on your computer

Unforget stores the following in Chrome’s extension storage and in a database inside your Chrome profile. Only Unforget can read it.

Your page index

For each bookmarked page Unforget could read: its text (up to about 40,000 characters), title, description, headings, keywords, language, and when it was read.

Your lists

Read Later (to read, archived and read), Recently deleted, your saved searches, the pages you pinned to the address bar, and your recent searches. A bookmark you delete is kept in Recently deleted for 7 days with its folder, place, saved date and page text, then removed.

AI Chat history

The questions you ask and the answers, until you clear them.

Settings and a debug log

Your settings, and the last 500 messages Unforget’s background process wrote: status lines, error messages and, when you add a bookmark, its title or address. The debug log never holds page text. It is kept only for the current browser session, and leaves your computer only if you choose “Export debug log” (the file also names your Unforget version and browser) and send the file to someone.

How Unforget reads your bookmarked pages

Fetching pages

Unforget downloads each bookmarked page from its own website, as your browser would, and extracts the text on your computer. These requests go only to the sites you bookmarked, and those sites see them as ordinary visits from your browser (including your IP address and the address requested). They are sent without your cookies, so a page behind a sign-in isn’t read this way unless you turn on “Index pages that need a sign-in”, or choose “Check with my sign-ins” for one page in Library health, which sends your cookies for that page once.

Pages Unforget never fetches

Addresses on your own computer or private network, Chrome Web Store pages, and one-click links such as sign-out, unsubscribe, confirm or magic-link addresses, because merely loading them could act on your account. The same rules apply when Library health checks whether your bookmarks still load.

Reading from your open tabs

When you bookmark a page that’s open in a tab, Unforget reads its text from that tab. With browsing history on, it also refreshes a bookmarked page’s text when you open it and its saved text is missing or more than a week old. To know whether a page is one of your bookmarks, Unforget’s page script asks inside your browser each time a page loads; for any other page the answer is no and nothing is recorded, and with browsing history off no page is read this way. Text read from a tab may come from a page you’re signed in to, so it stays on this computer and is never synced.

Browsing history

Unforget asks for Chrome’s history permission. While “Use browsing history” is on (it is on by default), Unforget reads your Chrome history on your computer to rank the pages you open often, find bookmarks you haven’t opened in a while, list pages you visited in the last 90 days when you search, and refresh a bookmarked page’s text when you open it. None of this leaves your computer.

Unforget keeps no copy of your history: it asks Chrome when it needs your visits and holds the answer in memory for a few minutes. Turn the switch off in Settings › Privacy and that copy is cleared, Unforget stops reading your history, and nothing you visited is listed anywhere in Unforget. Text already read from a bookmarked page you opened stays, as that bookmark’s page text.

Features that share more, off until you turn them on

Index pages that need a sign-in

Sends your Chrome cookies with each fetch of a bookmarked page, only to that page’s own website, so pages behind a login can be read and searched. The text read this way stays on your computer, and this setting is never copied to your other computers. Sign-out and similar links are still skipped.

Sync what Unforget has read

Writes a short summary of each page Unforget has read into Chrome’s sync storage, so your other computers signed in to the same Chrome profile can search those pages without reading every one again. A summary holds a short code derived from the page’s address (not the address itself), the day it was read, its language, the page’s own name when it differs from the bookmark’s, a short description of up to 320 characters (the page’s own description, or its opening words when it has none), its first headings and its most distinctive words. It never holds the full page text.

Pages read with your sign-in never get a summary: pages read from your open tabs, pages fetched with your cookies, and pages behind a sign-in. Summaries use at most 80 KB of Chrome’s 100 KB sync storage. Without a Chrome sign-in they stay on this computer, and turning the setting off removes them from Chrome sync.

Bring in Chrome’s Reading List

Brings the pages on Chrome’s Reading List, including ones you add on your phone, into Read Later. It asks for Chrome’s Reading List permission when you turn it on, and only then. It reads each entry’s address and title, and keeps read state in step both ways for the pages it brought in: mark one read in Unforget and it’s read on Chrome’s list, and the other way round. Unforget never deletes anything from Chrome’s Reading List, and turning the setting off stops bringing in new pages without removing the ones already in Read Later. It remembers on this computer which entries it has already seen, so a page you remove from Read Later isn’t brought back. Nothing leaves your computer beyond what Chrome’s own Reading List sync already does.

Chrome sync of your settings

By default, Unforget keeps three things in Chrome’s extension sync storage: its settings (every setting except “Index pages that need a sign-in”), your saved searches (their names and words) and the addresses of the pages you pinned to the address bar. Each item also carries a random code for this installation and the time it was written, so your computers can tell which change is newest. If you’re signed in to Chrome with sync on, Chrome copies these to your other computers; otherwise they stay on this one. With “Sync what Unforget has read” on, the page summaries described above join them.

The switch “Sync settings, saved searches and pins” in Settings › Privacy (on by default) decides this for each computer separately. Turned off, Unforget stops writing these items to Chrome sync and stops applying changes from your other computers; the copies on this computer stay, and “Sync what Unforget has read” pauses too. When you turn it off, Unforget also offers to remove these items from Chrome sync.

Nothing else goes to Chrome sync: not your page index or page text, your Read Later list, Recently deleted, AI Chat, your recent searches or your browsing history. Settings says this at the top: “Chrome sync copies only what you allow.” Chrome sync is Google’s service, and the Google Chrome Privacy Notice covers how it handles synced data.

AI Chat

AI Chat answers from your saved pages, on your computer. When your Chrome has its built-in AI ready, Unforget uses it by default to word answers and to suggest other words to search: your question and the matching passages go to that model, which Chrome runs on your device, not to an online service. Unforget only asks Chrome whether the model is ready and never starts its download; until it’s ready, or if you choose Basic, AI Chat shows the matching pages and passages on its own. The Google Chrome Privacy Notice covers Chrome’s built-in AI. Unforget offers no online AI provider and asks for no API key: the Google Gemini option, and any Gemini keys saved by earlier versions, were removed in version 12.83.0.

Backups and exports

“Export backup” saves a file where you choose. It holds your Read Later list, saved searches, pinned pages, settings, the duplicates you chose to keep and Recently deleted, but no page text. “Export debug log” saves the debug log as a file. Unforget never uploads either file; what happens to it afterwards is up to you.

What Unforget doesn’t do

• No analytics, telemetry or crash reporting.
• No advertising, and no tracking across sites.
• No selling, renting or sharing of your data.
• No remote code: everything Unforget runs ships inside the extension, and it loads no fonts or images from the web.

Permissions, and why Unforget asks for them

Read and change your bookmarks

To read your bookmarks, stay in step when you add, edit, move or delete them, and bring back ones you delete.

Read your data on the websites you visit

To fetch your bookmarked pages and read their text, and to read a bookmarked page’s text from its open tab.

Read your browsing history

For the browsing history features above, while “Use browsing history” is on.

Tabs and tab groups

To save the current tab to Read Later, open results, and search within a tab group.

Side panel, context menus and address bar keyword

To show Unforget beside the page, add right-click items such as “Save to Read Later” and “Pin to address bar”, and search when you type uf in the address bar. What you type after uf stays in Unforget.

Storage

To keep your index, lists and settings on your computer, and in Chrome sync as described above.

Scripting, offscreen documents, alarms and idle

To read text from an open tab, extract text from a fetched page on your computer, and schedule reading, retries and the weekly refresh for when you aren’t busy.

Keeping or deleting your data

• Settings › “Reset Unforget” clears your AI answer choice, your AI Chat history, your recent searches and Recently deleted, and puts lists back in their original order. It keeps your bookmarks, saved searches, Read Later list, the pages Unforget has read and your Privacy switches, and it changes nothing in Chrome sync.
• AI Chat’s clear button removes the conversation, and “Clear all saved pages…” in Read Later empties that list.
• Turning off “Sync what Unforget has read” removes its page summaries from Chrome sync.
• Turning off “Sync settings, saved searches and pins” and choosing “Also remove them from Chrome sync” removes those items from Chrome sync.
• Removing Unforget from Chrome deletes everything it stored on that computer, the page index included: Chrome removes an extension’s storage when it is removed. Unforget runs nothing at removal, so its items in Chrome sync are left to Chrome. To take the page summaries out first, turn off “Sync what Unforget has read” before removing Unforget. You can delete everything Chrome has synced from your Google Account at any time.

This website

unforget.inadram.studio is a static website. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other sites: its fonts, images and one small script (the search box on the home page, which runs only in your browser) all come from this site. The website is hosted on GitLab Pages, which may keep standard access logs under GitLab’s privacy policy. The extension itself sends nothing to this website.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. A change to what leaves your computer will also be described in Unforget’s What’s New.

Contact

Questions about privacy or this policy: hello@inadram.studio.