Time Web Extension

Adds the current site’s address to the browser title for the Time desktop app to read. Nothing leaves your device.

Time Web Extension is a companion to Time, a personal time tracker for Windows. This extension does one thing: it adds the current site's address to the browser tab title, so Time can tell which website you are using while it tracks your time. It has no interface of its own, and it does nothing useful on its own. If you do not use the Time desktop app, this extension has no purpose for you. WHAT IT ADDS TO THE TITLE On ordinary http and https pages, it appends a short marker to the page title: Example Domain [[https://example.com/:TIME_URL_V1]] The marker holds the site address and nothing more. Every page of the same website produces exactly the same marker. WHAT IT READS - the current page's address, without the path - the current page's title That is the complete list. It does not read the path, query string, or fragment -- the parts of a web address most likely to carry document names, account identifiers, search terms, or password-reset tokens. It does not read page content, form fields, passwords, cookies, browsing history, browser storage, or network traffic. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO - No network requests of any kind. Nothing is sent anywhere, to us or to anyone else. - No storage, cookies, analytics, advertising, telemetry, or remote code. - No background process or service worker. - No account, sign-in, popup, options page, or settings. - Does not run in Incognito windows. - Does not run on local files, browser-internal pages, or other extensions' pages. WHY IT ASKS FOR ACCESS TO ALL SITES Time tracks whatever you are actually using, so the extension has to be able to update the title on any ordinary website without being switched on each time. Chrome describes that level of access as being able to read and change data on the sites you visit. That describes what a content script could technically do, not what this one does. This one reads two values and writes one. HOW THE HANDOFF WORKS Your browser puts the tab title into the window title. Time already reads the foreground window title to know which application you are using. When it finds this marker, it takes the website domain from it and discards the rest. The address never leaves your computer, because there is no server on either side of the handoff. OPEN SOURCE The extension is MIT licensed and its full source is public. The packaged JavaScript is shipped unminified so it can be read directly: https://github.com/jmaroszek/Time-Web-Extension Privacy policy: https://trackwithtime.com/extension/privacy/