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by kordless 5393 days ago
Loggly's site and app are on two completely different stacks. The app is what you log into, and most of it sits behind authentication. I'm speculating here, but if we were to do some type of semi-automated documentation, it would PROBABLY sit behind authentication as well, as it would live in the app side of the house. Not because we wanted to 'track' someone. We can do that when you write a program and then test it! :P

I'm certainly not speaking for Dropbox here, but my point is that there do exist reasons why a company might want you to log in to see documentation. Maybe you are on a beta trial of V3.0 of the APIs, and need to see alternate docs, or some of the examples require you to have a hash that is used in examples, or...etc.

Seems to me you are being a bit pedantic. I doubt seriously that Dropbox is going to violate your privacy.