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Who is behind this website? There’s no privacy policy, no "about us" or legal notice. At the bottom it advertises for AI.LS, Favicon.im, Small.im and Query.dom

by hk__2 2y ago

Who is behind this website? There’s no privacy policy, no "about us" or legal notice. At the bottom it advertises for AI.LS, Favicon.im, Small.im and Query.domains. All of these websites link to other websites, mostly other random tools with SEO text below and links to other websites (including MagicAnimate.org which has a footer that says "This website is not affiliated with MagicAnimate").

walrus01 2y ago
So what? literally any website you visit that has a http daemon with logs also has your IP address. It's not like they're taking the data you see on the page when you view it, which is unique to your client and whatever last-mile connection you're on at that moment, and re-distributing it to anyone else. If you think the level of data this site shows is a lot and somehow concerning to you, don't ever use any form of modern FAANG social media... There are lots of other tools made by nerds, for nerds on the internet that don't have a privacy policy or a set of legal notices. Not everything needs to be treated like a formal "product" because of lawyers. I imagine you'd probably be highly concerned if you saw IRC and efnet 25 years ago too. look at all these other tools that also don't require you to click through agreeing to a TOS or whatever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168877
- hk__2 2y ago
  > If you think the level of data this site shows is a lot and somehow concerning to you, don't ever use any form of modern FAANG social media I’m not worried about that; I’m just asking who made the website. It’s not a "Show HN", it’s one of these random tools with SEO text and links at the bottom whose only purpose is to be one more part of a SEO farm; I don’t think this kind of thing should be on HN.
  - walrus01 2y ago
    Just so we're clear, you're worried about who made a website that does nothing more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs? If the community doesn't think it's novel and interesting, they can downvote it.
    - hk__2 2y ago
      > Just so we're clear, you're worried about who made a website that does nothing more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs? It does do something "more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs": it has a footer plenty of links to similar websites that are made by the same people, which makes it looks like more a random website part of an SEO farm than a tool made by some hacker in their free time. This impression is confirmed by the history of OP: their account is dedicated to spaming their products; it’s relatively new because their previous one (the same, but lower-case) ended up at -11 rep after having been repeatedly flagged.
Airyisland 2y ago
Didn't expect to receive so many likes and comments. I just updated the site yesterday and haven't added all the necessary pages yet. We'll update the privacy policy soon. Sorry if this caused any discomfort.
- hk__2 2y ago
  Thanks. You may want to do it on all of your other websites that lack legal owner information. On Small.im you also forgot to mention it’s a fork of picsmaller.com (thus violating their license).
  - Airyisland 2y ago
    Thank you for your input. Have you noticed the GitHub link in the top right corner? I believe this provides a clear and user-friendly way to give credit.
    - hk__2 2y ago
      This is the opposite of "clear and user-friendly"; it’s totally misleading. You write on your website that: > What is Small.im? Small.im is an open-source batch image compression tool that supports multiple image formats. And at the top you put a GitHub link to the original project. If someone doesn’t click on that link and do a bit of research, they might think you are the author of the open-source project, when in reality you just deployed your own fork without publishing your source and without mentioning the parent project (and with "© webmaster.studio. All rights reserved." at the bottom).
      - Airyisland 2y ago
        Got your point. Will fix it.
      - Airyisland 2y ago
        Fixed now.

by hk__2 2y ago

walrus01 2y ago

So what? literally any website you visit that has a http daemon with logs also has your IP address. It's not like they're taking the data you see on the page when you view it, which is unique to your client and whatever last-mile connection you're on at that moment, and re-distributing it to anyone else. If you think the level of data this site shows is a lot and somehow concerning to you, don't ever use any form of modern FAANG social media... There are lots of other tools made by nerds, for nerds on the internet that don't have a privacy policy or a set of legal notices. Not everything needs to be treated like a formal "product" because of lawyers. I imagine you'd probably be highly concerned if you saw IRC and efnet 25 years ago too. look at all these other tools that also don't require you to click through agreeing to a TOS or whatever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168877

hk__2 2y ago
> If you think the level of data this site shows is a lot and somehow concerning to you, don't ever use any form of modern FAANG social media I’m not worried about that; I’m just asking who made the website. It’s not a "Show HN", it’s one of these random tools with SEO text and links at the bottom whose only purpose is to be one more part of a SEO farm; I don’t think this kind of thing should be on HN.
- walrus01 2y ago
  Just so we're clear, you're worried about who made a website that does nothing more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs? If the community doesn't think it's novel and interesting, they can downvote it.
  - hk__2 2y ago
    > Just so we're clear, you're worried about who made a website that does nothing more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs? It does do something "more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs": it has a footer plenty of links to similar websites that are made by the same people, which makes it looks like more a random website part of an SEO farm than a tool made by some hacker in their free time. This impression is confirmed by the history of OP: their account is dedicated to spaming their products; it’s relatively new because their previous one (the same, but lower-case) ended up at -11 rep after having been repeatedly flagged.

Airyisland 2y ago

Didn't expect to receive so many likes and comments. I just updated the site yesterday and haven't added all the necessary pages yet. We'll update the privacy policy soon. Sorry if this caused any discomfort.

hk__2 2y ago
Thanks. You may want to do it on all of your other websites that lack legal owner information. On Small.im you also forgot to mention it’s a fork of picsmaller.com (thus violating their license).
- Airyisland 2y ago
  Thank you for your input. Have you noticed the GitHub link in the top right corner? I believe this provides a clear and user-friendly way to give credit.
  - hk__2 2y ago
    This is the opposite of "clear and user-friendly"; it’s totally misleading. You write on your website that: > What is Small.im? Small.im is an open-source batch image compression tool that supports multiple image formats. And at the top you put a GitHub link to the original project. If someone doesn’t click on that link and do a bit of research, they might think you are the author of the open-source project, when in reality you just deployed your own fork without publishing your source and without mentioning the parent project (and with "© webmaster.studio. All rights reserved." at the bottom).
    - Airyisland 2y ago
      Got your point. Will fix it.
    - Airyisland 2y ago
      Fixed now.