Last updated 22 August 2026
IGFocus does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal data. There is no account to create, no server behind it, no analytics, and no third-party code inside the extension. Everything it remembers is stored by your own browser, on your own machine.
Your settings — which switches are on, the language, the theme, and which categories you collapsed — are kept in Chrome’s own extension storage so they survive a restart, and are synced by Chrome between your signed-in browsers if you have that turned on. They contain no personal information beyond the choices you made in the popup.
Three things are kept in local storage instead, and never synced anywhere: the Story Auto-Liker’s counters, the Anti-Unsend log (message text that vanished in front of you, while that feature is enabled), and a short-lived cache of partner profile pictures. All three can be cleared at any time by removing the extension, and the Anti-Unsend log has its own “Clear log” button in the popup.
Files you save — photos, videos, MP3s, chat archives — are written by your browser’s own download manager to your own disk. They are not copied anywhere else.
IGFocus runs only on instagram.com. It cannot see any other site you visit, and it has no permission to.
On Instagram, it reads the page you are already logged into, in order to hide the parts you asked it to hide and to find the media you asked it to save. It reads Instagram’s own API responses in the page to locate full-resolution files — reading only: nothing is blocked, rewritten or re-requested by that part.
Ghost Mode blocks outgoing requests that report your activity back to Instagram: story view receipts, DM read receipts, typing indicators and live-join notifications. Blocking means the request is never sent. Nothing is redirected anywhere else.
storage — to remember your settings between visits.
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess — so Ghost Mode can block the receipt requests listed above, on instagram.com only.
downloads — so the browser can save a file you clicked save on.
Host access to instagram.com — the site the extension works on.
Optional host access to Instagram’s media hosts (cdninstagram.com, fbcdn.net) — requested only if you turn on the MP3 extractor, which has to read the audio bytes to convert them. If you decline, that one feature stays off and everything else works as before.
No data of any kind is sent to the developer or to any third party. No advertising, no profiling, no fingerprinting, no telemetry, not even crash reporting. Your Instagram credentials are never requested, read or stored — the extension acts on a session you have already opened yourself.
IGFocus is not directed at children under 13, and since it collects no data, it collects none from them either.
If this policy ever changes, the new version is published on this page with a new date at the top, and the change is described in the extension’s release notes.
Questions, or something that looks wrong: mota6em@gmail.com, or DM @getigfocus on Instagram. The full source code is public, so any claim on this page can be checked rather than taken on trust.
