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by flysonic10 7y ago
The developer is FreeAddon
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Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store(extensionmonitor.com)
154 points by flysonic10 7y ago|58 comments
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Some highlights: - The most popular category is “Productivity” accounting for ~40k extensions and 676M installs - Google itself authors 155 extensions accounting for ~133M installs - A single publisher has accumulated ~72M installs across 6
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Part 2 of our Chrome Web Store analysis: Category breakdown, ratings, authorship(extensionmonitor.com)
2 points by flysonic10 7y ago|1 comments
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by flysonic10 7y ago
I appreciate the openness about this.
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by flysonic10 7y ago
I appreciate the detail in your privacy policy. - Do you collect browsing history? Do you sell it? - How many companies have offered to buy the extension from you? For how much? - Have you tried publishing an in-app or in-store paid versio
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Also, how do you deal with duplicately named extensions?
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by flysonic10 7y ago
What happened to it?
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Yes
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Some highlights: - 50% of the 188,640 extensions have less than 16 users/installs - 13 extensions have over 10m users/installs
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Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions(extensionmonitor.com)
19 points by flysonic10 7y ago|14 comments
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6 Ways Browser Extensions Stole Your Data over the Years(extensionmonitor.com)
2 points by flysonic10 7y ago|0 comments
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Thanks for reporting these. I'll check it out in Firefox. I heard about the pricing section being an issue for some but haven't been able to reproduce it. I'm going to setup BrowserStack to find all of the issues.
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by flysonic10 7y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Haha, I totally understand. The funny thing to me is that the widget doesn't change the name at all. The name always shows up as "Will - A Real Human". @ziddoap just misremembered the name as Matt. They're pretty similar
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by flysonic10 7y ago
This just in... Drift _does_ allow you to turn off the pop-up. It's now off :) - Will (not Matt)
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Realtime refers to installations, not necessarily the threat of the extension. If a user installs an extension, you should know if the extension is a threat as soon as possible whether or not it has exposed data. Scoring is a complex proble
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by flysonic10 7y ago
I am a real human indeed. I can assure you my name is and has always been Will, regardless of the browser. I'm not sure where Matt comes from. Maybe I look like a Matt? I can also assure you I'm not going to switch gender in the f
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by flysonic10 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Privacy rights are meant to apply to everyone. Will check the wording of the privacy policy to make that clear. Regarding the instant popup, unfortunately I'm not able to keep it hidden with Drift, but wanted t
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Show HN: Extension Monitor to detect high-risk browser extensions(extensionmonitor.com)
3 points by flysonic10 7y ago|14 comments
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by flysonic10 8y ago
:wave: happy to see my fb pixels hackweek project is such a boon for creators :rocket:
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by flysonic10 9y ago
Simple (and free!) app that will send you email or SMS notifications when it detects new trading pairs on GDAX.
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Alerts when new currencies are added to GDAX(beep.network)
4 points by flysonic10 9y ago|1 comments
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by flysonic10 9y ago
Kleiner Perkins | Engineer in Residence | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm behind many of the biggest startups in Silicon Valley, is looking for an Engineer in Residence to help build internal web apps and data pip
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by flysonic10 9y ago
Marion and I put this small app together to reduce some of the information asymmetry in the cryptocurrency markets. We focused on a super simple signup flow and out-of-the-box scalability. It's built totally serverless with lambda, kin
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Show HN: Get notified when new trading pairs are added to GDAX(beep.network)
12 points by flysonic10 9y ago|1 comments
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by flysonic10 9y ago
Kleiner Perkins | Engineer in Residence | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm behind many of the biggest startups in Silicon Valley, is looking for an Engineer in Residence to help build internal web apps and data pip
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by flysonic10 11y ago
INDIEGOGO - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Software Engineers - Web Come join us in building out Indiegogo's platform to help entrepreneurs bring their idea from concept to market. We're all full-stack engineers and build mainly on Rails and
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by flysonic10 11y ago
INDIEGOGO - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Software Engineers - Web Come join us in building out Indiegogo's platform to help entrepreneurs bring their idea from concept to market. We're all full-stack engineers and build mainly on Rails and
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by flysonic10 11y ago
INDIEGOGO - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Software Engineers - Web / DevOps / iOS Come join us in building out Indiegogo's platform to democratize the way ideas get funded. We're all full-stack engineers and build mainly on Rails,

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