diff --git a/src/background-script/constants.ts b/src/background-script/constants.ts
index 5cc3fe2de7..6fb1cc2f7e 100644
--- a/src/background-script/constants.ts
+++ b/src/background-script/constants.ts
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ export const UNINSTALL_URL = `${API_HOST}/uninstall`
  * Percentage of quota usage where we want to warn users with a notification.
  */
 export const QUOTA_USAGE_WARN_PERC = 80
+
+export const DB_DATA_LOSS_FLAG = { name: 'STORAGE_CHECK_FLAG', postId: -1 }
diff --git a/src/background-script/index.ts b/src/background-script/index.ts
index c386cb0dfe..b41882a64e 100644
--- a/src/background-script/index.ts
+++ b/src/background-script/index.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ import { checkStripePlan } from '@worldbrain/memex-common/lib/subscriptions/stor
 import type { AnalyticsCoreInterface } from '@worldbrain/memex-common/lib/analytics/types'
 import { CLOUDFLARE_WORKER_URLS } from '@worldbrain/memex-common/lib/content-sharing/storage/constants'
 import checkBrowser from 'src/util/check-browser'
+import type Dexie from 'dexie'
+import { DB_DATA_LOSS_FLAG } from './constants'
 
 interface Dependencies {
     localExtSettingStore: BrowserSettingsStore<LocalExtensionSettings>
@@ -131,6 +133,11 @@ class BackgroundScript {
         // Store the timestamp of when the extension was installed
         await this.deps.localExtSettingStore.set('installTimestamp', Date.now())
 
+        // Add this to an unused table to periodically check and see if all data has ever been evicted
+        await (this.deps.storageManager.backend['dexie'] as Dexie)
+            .table('socialTags')
+            .add(DB_DATA_LOSS_FLAG)
+
         // Disable PDF integration by default
         await this.deps.syncSettingsStore.pdfIntegration.set(
             'shouldAutoOpen',
diff --git a/src/background-script/quick-and-dirty-migrations/index.ts b/src/background-script/quick-and-dirty-migrations/index.ts
index d2d9f3a78f..cc6e5263f6 100644
--- a/src/background-script/quick-and-dirty-migrations/index.ts
+++ b/src/background-script/quick-and-dirty-migrations/index.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import type { SyncSettingsByFeature } from 'src/sync-settings/background/types'
 import { HIGHLIGHT_COLORS_DEFAULT } from '@worldbrain/memex-common/lib/common-ui/components/highlightColorPicker/constants'
 import type { CustomListTree } from '@worldbrain/memex-common/lib/types/core-data-types/client'
 import type { Template } from 'src/copy-paster/types'
+import { DB_DATA_LOSS_FLAG } from '../constants'
 
 export interface MigrationProps {
     db: Dexie
@@ -69,6 +70,20 @@ export const MIGRATION_PREFIX = '@QnDMigration-'
 // __IMPORTANT NOTE__
 
 export const migrations: Migrations = {
+    /*
+     * This exists as we had a suspicion that sometimes browsers would forcefully evict all extension data.
+     * To in/validate that we put this flag and periodically check it to see if it's still there. In
+     * the case of a full data eviction, it should be gone.
+     */
+    [MIGRATION_PREFIX + 'add-db-data-loss-check-flag-01']: async ({ db }) => {
+        let [existing] = await db
+            .table('socialTags')
+            .where({ postId: DB_DATA_LOSS_FLAG.postId })
+            .primaryKeys()
+        if (!existing) {
+            await db.table('socialTags').add(DB_DATA_LOSS_FLAG)
+        }
+    },
     /*
      * This exists as we released the templates with a new order field, same as cuomstListTrees,
      * though we set the values for the static default templates to be less than the default space between.