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Why does the extension need a Google login? I deleted the login div from the HTML, and the extension works fine without the login.

raylad 5y ago
Yes please remove that. If you are not selling PII, as you said you were not, then you don't need a login.
maxmorlocke 5y ago
There are a few reasons: 1.) When a user reports an issue to us, it is much easier to find any issues in our error reporting stack. if we have their name and email address attached to the issue as opposed to asking them for all the search terms, time of issue, etc. and then hunting through to see if we've already found (and hopefully fixed) the issue. This practice started when we were a paid subscription, and I've found it useful to continue, especially with a very small team supporting a set of highly asynchronous interactions with scripts running across multiple websites and pushing data back to a common source. 2.) There are contractual requirements for some of the data that we've purchased to be protected from copies of those databases being made. Placing it behind an auth wall and leveraging account based rate limiting for API endpoints met our partners' needs.
- raylad 5y ago
  Requiring login and claiming not to sell PII look contradictory though, and will prevent some people (me for instance) from using your service.
  - vosper 5y ago
    Why does it look contradictory? Are you saying you just don't trust anyone who collects PII not to sell it, even if they've said they won't?
    - aaaaaaaaata 5y ago
      Hacks Buyouts etc
    - sorokod 5y ago
      They did not said that they won't.
  - dymk 5y ago
    The extension is pretty good, they're free to sell my PII in exchange for its use.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
  Wouldn't session-based rate limiting realistically accomplish the same goal for (2) ?
vln 5y ago
They intend to make money selling your data. > Monetize without ads: As a browser extension, we can focus on monetizing free users by selling information about user's search intent. source: https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin https://ucarecdn.com/965fe8bc-2ccd-4bd9-9984-465144810f57/-/format/auto/-/quality/smart/-/preview/ https://ucarecdn.com/965fe8bc-2ccd-4bd9-9984-465144810f57/-/...

raylad 5y ago

Yes please remove that. If you are not selling PII, as you said you were not, then you don't need a login.

maxmorlocke 5y ago

There are a few reasons: 1.) When a user reports an issue to us, it is much easier to find any issues in our error reporting stack. if we have their name and email address attached to the issue as opposed to asking them for all the search terms, time of issue, etc. and then hunting through to see if we've already found (and hopefully fixed) the issue. This practice started when we were a paid subscription, and I've found it useful to continue, especially with a very small team supporting a set of highly asynchronous interactions with scripts running across multiple websites and pushing data back to a common source. 2.) There are contractual requirements for some of the data that we've purchased to be protected from copies of those databases being made. Placing it behind an auth wall and leveraging account based rate limiting for API endpoints met our partners' needs.

raylad 5y ago
Requiring login and claiming not to sell PII look contradictory though, and will prevent some people (me for instance) from using your service.
- vosper 5y ago
  Why does it look contradictory? Are you saying you just don't trust anyone who collects PII not to sell it, even if they've said they won't?
  - aaaaaaaaata 5y ago
    Hacks Buyouts etc
  - sorokod 5y ago
    They did not said that they won't.
- dymk 5y ago
  The extension is pretty good, they're free to sell my PII in exchange for its use.
PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
Wouldn't session-based rate limiting realistically accomplish the same goal for (2) ?

vln 5y ago

They intend to make money selling your data. > Monetize without ads: As a browser extension, we can focus on monetizing free users by selling information about user's search intent. source: https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin https://ucarecdn.com/965fe8bc-2ccd-4bd9-9984-465144810f57/-/format/auto/-/quality/smart/-/preview/ https://ucarecdn.com/965fe8bc-2ccd-4bd9-9984-465144810f57/-/...