Privacy

The Sorted extension has no account, no analytics and no server. There is nowhere for your data to go, because there is no “we” on the other end of it.

Last updated 12 October 2026. This page describes what the extension actually does. Where it and the marketing copy ever disagree, this page is the one that is right.

What Sorted collects about you

Nothing. There is no account to create, no identifier assigned to you, no analytics, no crash reporting and no server run by us. Your viewing history, filters, thresholds and the titles you are offered are never sent anywhere.

What is stored, and where

All of it stays in your own browser, in local extension storage. None of it syncs. Uninstalling the extension removes it.

Your settings: thresholds, filters, which features are on
The ratings it shows you
Titles it has come across, as you browse and from the streaming services’ own category lists, so the picker has a pool to draw from, and the IMDb match for each
Prime Video’s list of categories, and how far a read of Prime Video has got, so it can carry on where it stopped
Any title you chose to hide from your own view
On Netflix, once you choose Read my Netflix history: which films and series the Netflix profile you are using has watched, and when, read from that profile’s own viewing activity. See What you’ve watched
Titles you marked Seen it, Not seen or Not for me
The original language of each Netflix title, from Netflix’s own lists of titles by language
How many titles each Netflix category holds, for the counts in Hidden categories
Your licence key
When your trial started, so the 7 days can be counted
After the trial, the day’s free pick, so it stays the same all day

What leaves your browser

Nothing about you. To show ratings, Sorted downloads IMDb’s public ratings and title files from IMDb (datasets.imdbws.com), the same files for everyone, and refreshes the ratings about once a day. When a title’s name differs between a streaming service and IMDb, Sorted may look that title’s name up with IMDb to match it. These requests carry the title, or nothing at all: no account, no identifier, no history. IMDb’s own privacy policy covers requests made to IMDb.

What Sorted never does

It never reads or sends your Netflix or Prime Video credentials or session
It never writes to your streaming account. No list is edited, nothing is removed, no viewing history is changed
It never reads the text of your subtitles. It only restyles them
It reads the pages you open, and the streaming services’ own category lists described below, and nothing else
It never sells, shares or brokers anything, because it never has anything to sell

Permissions, and why each exists

storage: To keep your settings, your key and the ratings it shows you in your browser between sessions.
The streaming sites: To read the titles on the page and draw badges and panels onto it. This is what the extension does, and it can’t be done without it.
tabs: To find a Netflix tab you already have open, so Sorted can ask Netflix for its category lists there, and to open one background tab for that when none is open, closing it when it is done. If Netflix won’t answer, the same permission lets Sorted open one unfocused window that reads the category pages instead, and tell whether you are watching something so it can pause. Prime Video needs none of this: it is read from the Prime Video tab you are on. The permission is never used to read your browsing history.

Reading the whole library

The picker can only offer titles Sorted knows about. To know all of them, it reads each streaming service’s own list of what is in every category, in your own signed-in session, and keeps what it finds on your machine. On Netflix it also asks, the same way, for the year and whether it is a film or a series of the titles on the page you are on, and for the description of a title Sorted picks for you; when the pick is a series, it also asks for the length of each episode, so it can show the series’ whole running time.

Netflix: Sorted asks Netflix for its category lists from a Netflix tab you already have open. Nothing opens and nothing scrolls, and one pass takes about two minutes. With no Netflix tab open, it opens one background tab to ask through and closes it when it is done
Prime Video: Sorted reads Prime Video’s own category pages from the Prime Video tab you are on, one page a second, never faster. The first time takes about twenty minutes, and if you leave, the next Prime Video page carries on where it stopped. After that, checking for new titles reads only Prime Video’s own “Recently added” lists, which takes seconds. If Prime Video ever asks it to slow down, it stops at once and waits a day
Each starts on its own exactly once, a few minutes after your first visit, and only if you have been browsing while signed in. Every read after that is a button you press, in the picker or in settings
You can see it and stop it: the picker shows how far along it is, with a Stop button
If Netflix won’t answer for its lists, most often when you are signed out, Sorted reads the category pages themselves instead, in one unfocused window that opens behind yours. The window says what it is across its top edge, pauses while you are watching something, and closes by itself
It visits only the services’ own category pages and lists, the same ones their menus link to
Everything it finds is stored locally, like everything else on this page
About once a week, on a Netflix page you have open, Sorted also reads Netflix’s own lists of titles by original language, the ones behind its “Browse by Languages” menu, so the language filter knows each title’s language. It is about thirty requests, one at a time
When you open Hidden categories on Netflix, Sorted asks Netflix how many titles each category holds, at most once a week, so each category can show its count. It asks for nothing but each list’s title numbers: about ninety requests, a third of a second apart, from the tab you are on

What you’ve watched

On Netflix, Sorted can fade the titles you have already watched and keep them out of your picks and the Top 10. To know which those are, it reads the viewing activity of the Netflix profile you are using: the same list Netflix shows you on its own Viewing activity page.

Nothing is read until you choose Read my Netflix history, under Hide watched in the Filters panel on Netflix. After that, Sorted checks for new viewings about once a day when you open Netflix, reading only what is new
It is read from the Netflix tab you are on, in your own signed-in session, one page at a time. Each Netflix profile’s history is kept apart, and only for the profile you are using
What is kept: each film and series watched, by its Netflix number and its name (so Settings can list it, and cards that show no number can be matched), the last time you watched it and, for a series, how many episodes. Not episode names, not how long you watched
It stays in your browser. It is never sent anywhere, not to us, not to IMDb, not to anyone, and it is not put in the backup file Settings makes
Seen it, Not seen and Not for me marks work the same way, on Netflix and on Prime Video, and stay in your browser too. Prime Video’s history is never read
To see or clear it: Settings, Watched. Every title counted as watched is listed there, each with its own Not seen or Remove, and Forget this history clears the history in one go. Turning off “Hide what I’ve watched” stops the hiding but keeps the history; uninstalling removes all of it

Payment

Payment is handled by a hosted checkout run by our payment provider, Dodo Payments, on their own site. We never see or store your card details, and the extension has no connection to any payment system.

The purchase record, meaning your email address and the payment, lives with the payment provider under their privacy policy. It is the only place any identifier of yours is kept
When the payment goes through, the provider tells this website your email address and order number, and your key is emailed to you through our email provider, Resend. We keep no copy of the key or the address, and you are not added to any list
Your licence key is stored on your own machine, like every other setting. It is not sent to us
Sorted never checks with a server whether you have paid, so your copy keeps working without one
The Buy button asks the payment provider to open a checkout for you at the price on this site. If you arrived through one of our short links, it also passes that link’s name, for example “producthunt”, so we can tell which posts work. Nothing else is sent

“Email me the link”

Extensions only install on a computer, so on a phone this site offers to email you the link instead. If you use it:

Your address is used to send exactly two emails: the link, straight away, and one reminder the next evening
It is passed to our email provider, Resend, to deliver them, and is not stored by us or added to any list
To stop the form being used to email strangers, it runs Cloudflare Turnstile, a spam check. It loads only once you open the form. The only other scripts this website loads from anyone else are the two visit counters described under This website
Nothing about it reaches the extension

This website

The extension counts nothing. This website, showsorted.com, counts visits in two ways, so we can tell which posts bring people here and whether the pages make sense.

Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views, the site you came from, your country and the kind of device, added up across everyone. It sets no cookies and keeps nothing that identifies you
Google Analytics counts visits, how far pages are scrolled, clicks on the Add to Chrome, Buy and send-to-computer buttons, plays of the film on the homepage, the welcome page Sorted opens once after it is installed, the checkout page when Sorted’s own Buy button opens it, and a purchase coming back as paid (its price only, never the order or your address), with the name of the short link you arrived through, for example “producthunt”. It sets cookies whose names start with _ga, which tell a returning browser apart, and Google keeps the data for up to 14 months. Google signals and advertising features are off, so none of it is used for ads
In the EU, the rest of the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google Analytics stays off until you choose Allow in the bar at the bottom of the page. To know whether to ask, the site checks which country the visit comes from, as Cloudflare sees it. The answer is not stored
Everywhere else it is on from the first page. You can turn it off, or back on, below. The choice is kept in this browser

Changes

If any of this changes, the date at the top changes with it and the change is described here.

12 October 2026: this website now also counts the welcome page Sorted opens after it is installed, and the checkout page when Sorted’s Buy button opens it, so we can tell how many installs and purchases each short link brings. The extension only opens those pages, as it did before. It still counts nothing and sends nothing.

11 October 2026: this website now also counts plays of the homepage film and purchases that come back as paid, each with the price and the short link’s name only. This page now also lists IMDb’s ratings files and the episode lengths Sorted asks Netflix for when it picks a series. Nothing new leaves your browser.

10 October 2026: titles you mark Not for me are kept in your browser, like Seen it marks, and are never suggested again. Opening Hidden categories on Netflix asks Netflix how many titles each category holds. Nothing new leaves your browser.

9 October 2026: the extension can now read your Netflix profile’s viewing activity, when you choose Import, to fade what you have watched. It stays in your browser. Described under What you’ve watched. It also reads Netflix’s lists of titles by language, for the language filter.

30 September 2026: this website added Google Analytics, described under This website. The extension did not change.

Contact

Questions about any of this: [email protected].