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What amuses me is that people complain that this information is being recorded and then proceed to upload the database to anonymous applications to visualise it
by joeconway 15y ago
What amuses me is that people complain that this information is being recorded and then proceed to upload the database to anonymous applications to visualise it, thus compounding the problem.
- llimllib 15y agoThis visualization is 100% client-side, you're only uploading it so that your browser can parse it with Javascript.
- clutchski 15y agoNo. This is different. You can choose to upload to this visualizer or not.
- willvarfar 15y agoYou can inspect the code - even run it locally. But point taken, many will use this bit of power js without wven thinking of the consequences... We wrote this for fun, and to show clientside js apps can do fancy things like parsing sqlite btree dbs raw, despite the obvious privacy implications.
- joeconway 15y agoSorry, I wasn't insinuating malicious intent. It's a cool app and I used it, it's much better than the openstreetmap version that was released! My comment was more of a reflection of people's amusingly conflicting views. One thing this has made me realise though is that if Apple were to just ask their customers rather than operate with subterfuge then they could have avoided this whole thing being a problem.
- smackfu 15y agoJust think of how many sites ask for all your demographic info like ZIP when you sign up.