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Post by navigate8310 » Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 9:36 AM UTC

Guillaume86 wrote: post #67

jawns wrote: post #35

I worked for a personalization vendor a few years ago and was on an engineering team that built a feature like this. It was ... a major headache, and I don't think anyone was ever completely comfortable with the security implications. So I wish the team good luck, and especially with issues like: * A/B testing. How can you ensure that what your clients are seeing is the same thing you are seeing? Maybe you've been as…

Tangentially related question, what are the most successful products built around browser extensions? I sometime have ideas that would require browser extensions, but it feels like the target market must be computer literate for any chance or success (no mobile support for example).

Post by newaccount74 » Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

japanman425 wrote: post #88

remixz wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We appreciate the good luck! We're definitely going to need it. I spoke to the security side in a previous comment, but here's some thoughts on the other points you mentioned: * A/B testing: We're grabbing the browser session data, which includes things like cookies and local storage. In our experience, this tends to be where A/B testing group identifiers are stored. But, if it was on something like the IP, then, yea…

So you keep client cookies and auth tokens… somewhere?

Post by KomoD » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 1:36 PM UTC

chevman wrote: post #109

For something enterprise scale, check out Tea Leaf. IBM ran the product for a while, I think now Acoustic has it. Many large F500 use this or other similar products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tealeaf