Lazy Reels – Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Lazy Reels is a browser extension for short videos on the four most popular short-video sites. It adds keyboard shortcuts for sharing a reel with people you choose, playback controls, a pop-out player and time statistics. It runs only on those sites. Your data stays in your browser: we do not run any server, and the extension never sends anything to us or to anyone else.

What the extension stores

All of the following is saved only in your browser's extension storage:

• Your settings: the people you add (their username or name) and their keyboard shortcuts, a separate list for each site; your "share to all" and undo shortcuts; playback speed, rewind time, undo time, how long a reel must be on screen to count as seen, and the theme. If Chrome sync is turned on, Chrome copies these settings between your own browsers through your Google account.
• Usage statistics, on this computer only: when your sessions on these sites started and ended and how long you were active (kept 90 days); how many reels you saw each day (90 days) and when you saw them (30 days); and which of the people you added you shared a reel with, and when (90 days).
• Already shared: the IDs of the reels you shared and who you shared each one with, so the extension can show who you've already shared a reel with. Only the newest 5,000 reels are kept.
• Small switches: whether Auto next is on, which pop-out mode you use, which site you last looked at in Stats, and whether you hid the pop-out notice. While a tab is popped out, the extension also remembers which window it came from and its zoom; this is cleared when the browser closes.

On one of the sites, a video opened in that site's popup view is reloaded once into its normal view. To do that only once, the extension keeps the page address and the time in that tab's session storage, which the browser clears when the tab closes.

Versions before 1.18.19 also looked up and saved the profile picture addresses of the people you added. That lookup is gone, and updating deletes what was saved.

What leaves your computer

Nothing is sent to us or to any third party, and the extension makes no network requests of its own. The only thing that leaves your computer is a share you ask for: when you press a shortcut, the extension uses the site's own share window, in your logged-in tab, to share the reel with the person you chose, with your message if you wrote one. This is the same share you could do by hand, and it goes through that site.

Permissions

• Storage: to save the settings and statistics listed above.
• Display information: to read the size of your screen, so the pop-out window can fill its height. Nothing about your screen is stored or sent.
• Access to the four sites: so the extension can add its controls to their pages. On those pages it reads only what its features need: the reel that is playing, the site's share window when you share, the reel's owner, likes and comment counts that the pop-out shows, and whether you are active on the page, for the time statistics.

What we do not do

• We do not collect personal information, browsing history, messages or passwords.
• We do not use analytics, advertising or tracking.
• We do not sell or transfer your data, and we do not use it for anything other than the features above.

Removing your data

"Clear history" on the Stats tab deletes your time, seen and shared statistics. It does not delete your settings or the already shared list. Uninstalling the extension removes everything it has stored.

Changes

If this policy changes, for example if we add optional paid features or cloud sync, we will update this page and the date above before the change takes effect.

Contact

Use the contact details on Lazy Reels's Chrome Web Store page.

Lazy Reels is an independent extension. It is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with any of the sites it works on.