Shareaholic Contains Spyware

Re:Shareaholic Contains Spyware by sachinag on Saturday April 03, 2010 @10:37PM (#1239587)

Did you e-mail the developers before posting this? I mean, it's really kind of mean to post something like this without trying to resolve your issues with the developers directly first. In this case, Jay happened to be around to respond, but you said you wouldn't want to hurt Shareaholic's reputation without being sure. Didn't everyone read Derek Sivers' piece? Screaming on the phone or sending nasty e-mails or posting accusatory blog posts is not the first line of defense; there are other humans involved.

Also, posting it to HN without the question mark in your title was totally bogus.

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Re:Shareaholic Contains Spyware by omergertel on Sunday April 04, 2010 @02:26AM (#1239865)

Technically, I think the title is very accurate. The fact that Shareaholic has an option to turn it off, makes it less sinister, but in my book, collecting my surfing statistic is spying on me. The post states facts, and doesn't bash Shareaholic.

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Re:Shareaholic Contains Spyware by arpitnext on Sunday April 04, 2010 @07:36PM (#1241015)

@sachinag: :( you are wrong. We should appreciate Michael Shynar for discovering this, else Shareaholic never mention this on their Firefox page.

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Re:Shareaholic Contains Spyware by mikasa on Sunday April 04, 2010 @10:18PM (#1241211)

@arpitnext disagree with you, and 100% agree with @sachinag. This could have been handled better by Michael.

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