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Re:Show HN: JSONP - enable cross-domain requests to any JSON... by jaredsohn on Sunday May 13, 2012 @11:04AM (#3967166)
1a -- you aren't just trusting this site, you are trusting everyone since the API keys can be found within the source.

3 -- it is even simpler than that; the source can be found on github. At the very least, services such as this are useful as you are still developing.

For the viability of a commercial version of this project, I think the biggest question is: why would somebody use this instead of Yahoo's YQL?

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Re:Show HN: JSONP - enable cross-domain requests to any JSON... by aidanfeldman on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:06AM (#3969546)
no commercial version planned - I threw it up because it was something I was going to use (to build hackerhours.org), and figured it would be useful to others as well
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Re:Show HN: JSONP - enable cross-domain requests to any JSON... by aidanfeldman on Monday May 14, 2012 @03:31AM (#3969908)
1a) not all API calls require a secret
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Re:Show HN: JSONP - enable cross-domain requests to any JSON... by jaredsohn on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:13AM (#3970010)
True, but irrelevant.

Note that I was responding to "I won't trust you with my API keys"

On a tangent, while this is a problem for this particular website, the issue is solveable. (See YQL.)

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