Privacy Policy

YouTube Shorts Auto Scroll Chrome Extension

Last Updated: June 2026

TL;DR: This extension keeps your settings and a few usage counts on your own device using Chrome's local storage. It makes no network requests, contacts no servers, and sends your data to no one.

No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. No remote code. Nothing ever leaves your browser.

1. Information Collection

What Is Stored (On Your Device Only)

The extension saves a small set of your own settings and counters locally, using chrome.storage.local, so they are remembered between page loads and browser sessions:

✅ Whether auto-scroll is turned on
✅ Whether the length filter is turned on, and its seconds value
✅ The colour theme you selected
✅ The control panel's position on screen and whether it is collapsed
✅ Aggregate counts: how many Shorts were advanced, how many long Shorts were skipped, and an estimate of viewing time saved

This data is stored only on your device. It is never uploaded, synced to a server, or shared with anyone.

What Is NOT Collected, Stored, or Transmitted

The extension does not collect, store, transmit, or process any of the following:

❌ No personal information (name, email, address, etc.)
❌ No browsing history — no list of pages you have visited and no aggregation across visits
❌ No page content, page text, images, cookies, or form data
❌ No video content, video titles, channel names, or anything you watch
❌ No data from any site other than YouTube, and nothing from tabs you are not viewing
❌ No analytics, usage statistics, or telemetry of any kind
❌ No device identifiers
❌ No network requests at all — the extension contacts no external service

What Happens When You Use the Extension

While you are on the YouTube Shorts feed and auto-scroll is enabled, the extension works entirely inside your browser:

It checks the current tab's URL path to recognise when you are on a Short (a path beginning with /shorts)
It reads the playing video's progress (current time and total length) to detect when a Short is about to finish, and whether it is paused
It checks whether the comments panel is open and whether the tab is in the background, so it can wait rather than scroll past something you are reading or have stepped away from
When a Short ends, it moves to the next one by using YouTube's own next-video control
It updates the local counters described above and shows them in its panel

All of this is transient and on-device. The page information it reads is used only in the moment to decide when to advance, and is not stored or sent anywhere.

2. Data Usage

The extension's sole purpose is to advance to the next Short when the current one ends, with an optional skip for Shorts longer than a length you choose. The settings and counters it stores are used only to:

Remember your preferences (auto-scroll, length filter, theme, panel position) so you do not have to set them again
Show you simple counts of what it has done

The extension does not share, sell, or transfer your data to anyone. There is no developer-controlled server and no developer-controlled database. Your data never leaves your device.

3. Permissions Explained

The extension requests the minimum permissions needed to function:

storage

To save your settings and local counters (listed in Section 1) on your own device so they persist between visits. This data is local only and is never transmitted.

Access to youtube.com (content script)

The extension's script is matched to *://*.youtube.com/* so it can run on YouTube and operate the Shorts feed: detecting when you are viewing a Short, reading the active video's playback position to know when it ends, and triggering the move to the next Short. The feature only acts on Shorts pages. The broader YouTube match is required because YouTube is a single-page app — Shorts are often opened by clicking within YouTube rather than loading a /shorts URL directly, and a script limited to /shorts would not load during those in-app navigations. The script checks the path itself and stays idle on every other YouTube page.

No <all_urls>, *://*/*, or other broad host patterns are requested. No content script runs on any site other than YouTube.

4. Third-Party Services

None. The extension makes no network requests and contacts no external service. It uses no analytics platform, no advertising network, and no developer-controlled API. The only external reference anywhere in the extension is a plain link to the developer's website in the About panel, which opens in a new tab if you choose to click it.

5. Data Security

Because the extension stores only on your own device, makes no network requests, and runs no developer-controlled server, there is no data in transit and no data at rest under the developer's control. The extension code:

Is self-contained with no external script dependencies
Does not use remote code, eval(), or dynamic imports
Can be inspected by unpacking the extension package

You can remove all of the extension's stored settings and counters at any time by clearing the extension's data in your browser, or by uninstalling the extension.

6. Children's Privacy

The extension collects no personal data from anyone, including children under 13. Since no personally identifiable data is collected, stored, or transmitted, no special provisions for children's privacy are necessary.

7. Changes to This Policy

If the extension's data practices change, this privacy policy will be updated and the "Last Updated" date at the top will reflect the change. Material changes (for example, adding any network request, third-party service, or new category of stored data) will be reflected here before being shipped in a new release.

8. Your Rights

Because no personal data is collected or retained by the developer, and all settings and counters live only on your own device:

There is no developer-held data to access, modify, or delete
There is no data to export or transfer
There are no developer-side data processing activities to opt out of
You remain in full control of the local data and can clear it at any time, as described in Section 5

9. Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy or the extension's practices, you can:

Review the extension package to see exactly what the extension does
Submit feedback through the Chrome Web Store
Visit customsaas.co.uk

10. Compliance

This extension complies with:

Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies
Chrome Web Store Limited Use requirements (no user data leaves the device, so it is used only to provide the feature the user requested)
GDPR (no personal data is collected or processed by the developer)
CCPA (no data collection or sale by the developer)

Bottom Line

YouTube Shorts Auto Scroll is a small convenience tool for the Shorts feed. It runs entirely inside your browser, on YouTube Shorts pages only. Your settings and a few counters are saved on your device so they are there next time — nothing is uploaded, and no part of your data is ever sent off your machine.