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Hey 0des, Richard here (CEO you.com). Sorry we didn't have everything figured out and set in stone when we were a handful of devs shipping our very first versi

Hey 0des, Richard here (CEO you.com). Sorry we didn't have everything figured out and set in stone when we were a handful of devs shipping our very first version. Our privacy is still great, that extension has over 20k installs now [1] and developers are loving our coding features, easy code snippets, AI code writing, find documentation easily, all of github issues crawled, [2] etc. - you can see the positive reception of code.you.com here: https://twitter.com/RichardSocher/status/1521590973469396993 https://twitter.com/RichardSocher/status/1521590973469396993 We also iterated on our answers that we had not yet figured out earlier. You can find them on about.you.com Let me know what you think. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youcom/afiglppdonkdbkkaghbnpklddbemkbpj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youcom/afiglppdonk...

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jjulius 4y ago
>Our privacy is still great... I am having trouble squaring this away with how I've seen you communicate here on HN. Since announcing You, people have asked you about third-party requests they see in You's Private mode, but each time you're asked, you avoid the question. Surely you see how avoiding a privacy-focused question can give one pause when we see you turn around and say that your "privacy is still great"? I'd be curious if you'd be willing to shed light on those third-party requests?
- richardsocher 4y ago
  Thanks for the message. Our private mode proxies all external calls to third party services, including images, videos, and all search results. On top of that all internal telemetry is turned off, first party cookies are ignored (we never have any third party cookies), split testing is disabled, and any app that requires location is turned off. Any such calls that were seen around the initial launch should not have been there, ie were bugs, and have been remedied. We really want our private mode to be the best in class when it comes to privacy, so please let us know if you have more feedback for us.

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jjulius 4y ago

>Our privacy is still great... I am having trouble squaring this away with how I've seen you communicate here on HN. Since announcing You, people have asked you about third-party requests they see in You's Private mode, but each time you're asked, you avoid the question. Surely you see how avoiding a privacy-focused question can give one pause when we see you turn around and say that your "privacy is still great"? I'd be curious if you'd be willing to shed light on those third-party requests?

richardsocher 4y ago
Thanks for the message. Our private mode proxies all external calls to third party services, including images, videos, and all search results. On top of that all internal telemetry is turned off, first party cookies are ignored (we never have any third party cookies), split testing is disabled, and any app that requires location is turned off. Any such calls that were seen around the initial launch should not have been there, ie were bugs, and have been remedied. We really want our private mode to be the best in class when it comes to privacy, so please let us know if you have more feedback for us.