Pain Tolerance — Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 2026

What Pain Tolerance does

Pain Tolerance is a Chrome extension that injects simulated fake reply previews beneath your own tweets on Twitter/X. It runs entirely in your browser and makes no network requests of its own.

Data we collect

Pain Tolerance does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data. The only information stored by the extension is:

• Your Twitter/X handle (used locally to identify your tweets on screen)
• Your active/inactive preference
• Your intensity setting (Mild / Medium / Unhinged)

These three values are saved in chrome.storage.sync, which means Chrome may sync them across your own devices if you are signed into Chrome sync. This sync is managed entirely by Google/Chrome — Pain Tolerance never touches your data outside your browser.

Network requests

Pain Tolerance makes zero outbound network requests. All content (fake reply text, fake avatars, persona names) is generated locally inside your browser using logic bundled with the extension.

Permissions

The extension requests the following permissions:

• storage — to save your handle and preferences across browser sessions.
• Read and change data on twitter.com and x.com — to detect your tweets and inject simulated reply previews into the page. The extension does not transmit any page data.

Source code

Pain Tolerance is open source. You can review every line of the extension at github.com/jayterwahl/paintolerance.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue on the project repository.