Mass Unfollow for Instagram Privacy Policy

The short version

Mass Unfollow works on your own Instagram account, inside your own browser. Your Instagram data — who you follow, who follows you, and the actions you run — goes only to instagram.com. We never ask for your Instagram password. The only thing that ever reaches us is your answers, if you fill in the optional uninstall survey.

Your Instagram data

Mass Unfollow uses the Instagram session you are already logged in to in Chrome, and Instagram’s own web endpoints — the same ones instagram.com uses when you click Follow or Unfollow yourself.

• •Signed-in account: Mass Unfollow reads Instagram’s ds_user_id cookie in your browser to know which account is signed in and to notice when you switch accounts. It is never sent anywhere.
• •Following and followers lists: read from instagram.com into your browser so Mass Unfollow can sort them (for example, accounts that don’t follow you back). They are never sent to us or to anyone other than instagram.com.
• •Actions you choose to run (unfollow, follow back, remove follower): sent directly from your browser to instagram.com, exactly as if you had clicked the button yourself.
• •No passwords, no email addresses, no direct messages, and no content from other people’s accounts.

What is stored on your device

Scan results, scan history (used to show who unfollowed you and who is new), your settings (pace, per-run limit, keep list), and a log of actions you ran are saved with Chrome’s local extension storage.

• •They stay on your device and are kept separately for each Instagram account you use.
• •They are never uploaded, sold, shared, or used for advertising or profiling.
• •Uninstalling Mass Unfollow deletes them.

Uninstall survey

If you remove the extension, Chrome opens a short, optional feedback page on tailsgate.com. Closing the tab sends no answer.

• •When the page opens: the version you had and a random install identifier created on your device at install. It is not linked to your Instagram account and contains nothing about you.
• •If you answer: the reason you tap and anything you type in the optional comment box.
• •Where it goes: Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare KV storage, which host and store the answers for us.
• •Your IP address is not stored. It is hashed and truncated so duplicate or abusive submissions can be spotted, and the original address is never kept.

No analytics

The Mass Unfollow extension contains no analytics, tracking or advertising code, and does not record how you use it.

Our processors

We use exactly one outside service, only for the purpose above:

• •Cloudflare, Inc. — hosts the server that receives and stores uninstall survey answers.
• •Nothing is sent to any other company. Instagram (Meta) receives only what you would send by using instagram.com yourself.

Permissions

Mass Unfollow asks Chrome for as little as it needs:

• •instagram.com access: to read your lists and run the actions you choose, on instagram.com only.
• •cookies: to read the ds_user_id cookie on instagram.com, locally, so it knows which account is signed in.
• •storage and unlimited storage: to keep your scans, history and settings on your device. Large accounts need more than Chrome’s default allowance.
• •scripting: to send each request from inside an instagram.com tab, because Instagram only accepts follow and unfollow requests that come from its own pages.

Tips

The extension and this website have an optional “Support the dev” link to buymemomo.com. It is an ordinary link: nothing is sent to that site unless you open it, and any tip you leave is handled by that site under its own privacy policy. Tipping unlocks nothing.

Video on this website

The Mass Unfollow page on tailsgate.com has a demo video hosted on YouTube. Nothing is requested from YouTube or Google until you press play; after that, YouTube’s own privacy policy applies.

Changes

If what Mass Unfollow sends ever changes, we will update this page and its date before the change ships, and tell you in the extension.

Contact

Questions about privacy or your data: email [email protected]. To have a survey record deleted, include your install identifier and we will remove it.