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> The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, How do you know that? It sounds a bit scary that you are able to know this number.

• sabellito 4y ago
  I have an addon published for Firefox and they provide usage stats, which includes Daily Active Users, despite the addon itself having no tracking at all.
  • phgn 4y ago
    I believe that is the number of installs in active browsers, not how often people interact with the extension (which is much lower).
    • sabellito 4y ago
      Might be, here's a screeshot of the graph: https://imgur.com/a/O5RkAYa https://imgur.com/a/O5RkAYa
• lioeters 4y ago
  I was also skeptical at first, but the code is open source, and there's clear documentation on privacy policy and metrics collected. https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/metrics.md https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/metri... Bravo to the author, well done for earning the users' trust.
  • phgn 4y ago
    Yep there is usage reporting (which features people use), but it never includes the sites or domains you visit. Beyond the project being open-source, it's also bundled so the production code is a readable as possible for you to verify this. Honestly the extension would not exist in its current form without this. Looking at the usage after releasing a feature is incredibly helpful to see if something is working.
• gnicholas 4y ago
  This is publicly available for any Chrome extension in the Chrome webstore.