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by bertman 1326 days ago
On your website, you say "Also, we NEVER record any of your personal data". Could you explain this piece of code from your extension then? :

   else if (request.type === "removeTab") {
            chrome.tabs.get(
                parseInt(request.tabId),
                function(tab) {
                    if (chrome.runtime.id === PROD_EXTENSION_ID) {
                        registerAnalytics(database, {
                            type: "registerAnalyticsEvent",
                            analyticsType: "closed_tab",
                            meta: {
                                url: tab.url
                            }
                        })
                    }
                }
I hope I'm wrong but this looks like the URL of each tab that a user closes or "hides" before a meeting is sent to your analytics database.
1 comments

Thank you for the interest. As you can see, it does record the url of the closed tab, but there is no way it can link back to the person. Anybody who installs the extension is just an ID to the system. The reason we decided to record the closed URLs is for analysis. Because we plan to launch a feature where AI is able to let you know of possible unsafe tabs in the future. We still don't have anyway to link this activity to the user itself because we don't have their details. I hope it makes sense.