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by lasagna_coder 2210 days ago
There's a donation button at the top of the page. Also, perhaps it's going to gauge volume and costs before developing a premium model. Looks like an early adopter model. Also, providing a service like this with the trade off being able to use and learn from the data for improving the product isn't uncommon (google forms, google mail...).

One thought I had that could avoid the harvesting data aspect would be to encrypt the data with a public key and then allowing the host to decrypt it locally with a private key. I think that's how products like Lastpass work.

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... but where would the encryption happen? You're still just hoping they don't harvest before the encryption step.
It would be cool if there was a way to sandbox part of a website so that it could be sandboxed against specific functionality.