Privacy policy

Webling browser extension and webling.vercel.app · last updated 25 October 2026

The short version: your webling lives on your computer. It doesn't collect your browsing, it doesn't phone home, and there are no accounts, analytics, ads or trackers.

What the extension keeps, on your device

• Your pet: its name, colours, vibe, growth, aura, hunger and stats (like how many cookie banners it has eaten).
• Your settings: whether eating is on, the sites where you've switched eating or the pet off, and whether it's put away.
• A focus session, while one runs: when it ends, and the distracting sites (hostnames only) you opened during it, so the pet calls each out once. These are cleared when the session ends; only the counts are kept for Wrapped.
• This week's and last week's numbers: pages visited, pages opened after midnight, how many of them were each kind of site (shopping, social, news and so on, worked out from the address), doomscrolls, times it was thrown, and aura gained. They make your weekly Webling Wrapped. No addresses are kept for these.
• Sites it has visited: the hostname (like example.com, never the full address) with a visit count and the last visit time, kept for the "sites explored" count and so the pet can greet sites it knows. Capped at 5,000 sites.

All of this is stored with the browser's own extension storage (chrome.storage.local) and never leaves your device. Uninstalling the extension deletes it.

What it does on the pages you visit

To walk on a page, the pet looks at where lines of text are. To eat cookie banners and pop-ups, it looks at elements that cover the page and the text they show, then hides them with styles. It never clicks anything, never reads or sends what you type into forms, and never blocks or changes network requests. It reads the page's address to tell what kind of site you're on (so it can have opinions about LinkedIn). To react to you, it notices how fast you scroll (doomscrolling), when the mouse moves (to wake up) and when you copy something (never what you copied). All of this happens on your device. The only things it keeps are the counts and lists described above, and none of it is sent anywhere.

Meeting other weblings

The extension has an optional feature for seeing other people's pets on the same page. It is switched off in the current version and makes no network connections. If it's turned on in a future version, this policy will be updated first, and it will share only: a scrambled ID of the page (a SHA-256 hash of its origin and path, never the address itself), and your pet's name, colour and stage. It will stay off in incognito windows, on pages with a password box, and on mail, banking, payment and sign-in sites, and you'll be able to switch it off.

Sharing

The share card and your Webling Wrapped are made on your device. Nothing from them leaves it unless you share it.

Share links work by carrying what they show in the link itself. A Wrapped link carries that week's numbers (including focus sessions), the kind of site you visited most and how often, and your pet's name, colours, stage and vibe. It never carries the sites you visited. A roast link (from the website) carries the site being roasted and your pet's name and colours. Anyone with a link can see what's in it, and opening one makes webling.vercel.app draw its picture. Like any web request, that passes through Vercel's servers and logs.

This website

webling.vercel.app runs a demo pet in your browser and keeps it in your browser's local storage. The site sets no cookies and has no analytics. It's hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard server logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect the service; see Vercel's privacy policy.

Who we share data with

Nobody. We don't sell, rent or transfer any data, because we don't collect any.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions or concerns: open an issue on GitHub.