I would love to see an inplementation of this from an org with a more DuckDuckGo-like philosophy. Where personal and tracking information is simply not collected.
I emailed them about this, they claim its a error in the privacy policy and will update it. They say it is referring to the case if you share your reading list publicly.
Yep, it's just not being explained enough in our Privacy Policy. We will change that.
Linkpack does not collect all of your links and sends them to our servers. Only after tapping the share button in a particular folder, and only then, it makes a request to Dropbox API to collect just the links of this particular folder, in order to generate the page that you can share with your friends.
What are your plans to support other browsers? I would definitely jump ship from Pocket if I had either a bookmarklet or a Safari extension; the notion of dragging the link to a Dropbox folder feels a little too clunky.
We plan to create a Safari extension as soon as possible and a Firefox one just after that. The first release of Linkpack was just an MVP, so we will definitely add support for more browsers as we continue the development!
Funny, I thought someone was posting one of my undocumented projects here. http://linkpackets.com - semi sort of related. But it's an easy way(email tokens only) for me to keep track of a bundle of links between the office and home, and also link groups of them to other people. Maybe this is what I need instead!
This looks great. Any plans to support (or at least provide an option for) using Safari view controller? Maybe even with reader mode as a default option (Tweetbot does this) which would probably eliminate the need for Readability.
Safari view controller was released as an API when we were further down in the development of Linkpack. That said, while Safari VC has some handy features like the reader mode, it does not let us do stuff like tracking the reading progress or customizing the look of it to match the look and feel of the Linkpack app. We do keep an eye on this API though.
Right now there a $1.99 IAP that enables extra functionality such as Reading Progress, Narration and more but -as we are in a really early stage- this might change in the future, depending on the features that will be implemented.
Linkpack makes use of some iOS8 APIs (it has a Share Extension, it uses the UIVibrancyEffect and UISearchController etc) that would increase the development time if we decided to support older versions. I understand the frustration but this was a decision we had to make in order to speed up the development. Plus iOS8+9 now make up the 94% of the install base according to Apple: https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/.
We do plan to add more cloud providers in the future. We started with Dropbox as this was something that we have been already using in our daily routines, plus it's the most widely used.
The disabled javascript is the cause of the issue here. The page waits till all the images are loaded and then begins the initial animation. I will need to find a workaround for people who have JS disabled. Out of curiosity though, why is Javascript disabled in your browser? :)