Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-04-28

These terms govern your use of scrobble.life (the website) and the Hive Scrobblerbrowser extension. They are written in plain language rather than legal boilerplate. They are not a substitute for legal advice. By using scrobble.life you agree to them; if you don't, please stop using the service.

1. What scrobble.life does

scrobble.life records what you listen to and watch ("scrobbles") and writes that record to the Hive blockchain. The website displays scrobbles, comments, and reactions; the extension does the listening and posting. You can use either independently.

2. Your account

There are two ways to use scrobble.life:

• Bring your own Hive account. You sign every scrobble through Hive Keychain. We never see your private keys. You are responsible for the security of your Hive account.
• Sign in with Reddit (proxy mode). A central Hive account we operate signs scrobbles on your behalf and notes your Reddit username inside each post. You can later create your own Hive account and link it; from that point on, your Hive account signs directly. See our privacy notice for what this custody implies.

3. What we publish

Every scrobble is published as a custom_json operation on the Hive blockchain. Hive operations are public and permanent. Anyone can read them, and they cannot be deleted or rewritten by us or by you. Before you scrobble anything, assume that anyone, anywhere, in any future will be able to see the artist, title, and timestamp of what you played.

Comments ("snaps") you post through scrobble.life are likewise written to Hive and inherit the same permanence. Reactions you place on songs are stored privately on our server; see the privacy notice.

4. Your responsibilities

• You will not use scrobble.life to publish illegal content via comments.
• You will not abuse the proxy-mode signing service (e.g. by farming Reddit accounts to inflate scrobble counts).
• You will not attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or overload the service in ways that would degrade it for others.
• If you connect your Hive account, you accept that any operation broadcast through it is your responsibility.

5. What we provide (and don't)

scrobble.life is provided as-is, with no warranties of uptime, accuracy, or fitness for any purpose. We do not guarantee that any specific scrobble will land on chain (Hive nodes can refuse ops, the network can go down, your Keychain can deny). We do not promise the website will be available at any particular time.

We may change, pause, or shut down the service. If we do, your on-chain scrobble history will continue to exist on Hive even if our website goes away — that is one of the points of building on a public chain.

6. Removal from the website

You can ask us to remove your account from the scrobble.life display at any time. We will hide your scrobbles, comments, and reactions from the site within a reasonable time. We cannot remove anything from the Hive blockchain — those records are maintained by thousands of independent nodes and we have no authority to delete them. See the privacy noticefor the procedure and what we can and can't do.

7. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The "last updated" date at the top will reflect any change. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the new version.

8. Contact

Reach us through the email listed in the extension's store listing or via a Hive comment to @hscr.