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Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by foerbert »

detaro wrote: post #321
foerbert wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: I now believe the website was, in fact, changed. Original comment below, most individual bits still relevant aside from the overall conclusion that the pieces added up to accidental confusion. Apparently concluding HN folk were bad at understanding even poorly displayed tech was not wise. Who knew? I probably should have realized that was not a good bet. At this point I consider the apparent lack of understandi…

Which browser are you using? Firefox appears to be not getting the agressive prompt to install the Chrome extension, they were clever enough to check for that.

Ah, that would explain it. I was using Firefox. That probably should have occurred to me too.

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by lesolorzanova »

You know what would be great? to add the date in which the source became available, or the date of the "accepted answer", or the date of the last edit. Many SO answers and answers in forums are more than a decade old. I signed up and will try t out, I am doing all my searches in you.com now

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by somenewaccount1 »

richardsocher wrote: post #246
somenewaccount1 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, i installed the extension and it immediately mucked with my chrome profiles. thanks, but no thanks. glad i'm not the only one that felt this way.

that's a chrome setting. our extension has zero influence on your chrome profiles. we'll open source it soon so you can verify :)

Hrm, I think it's your team being ignorant of a bug.

Other extensions do not move around my profiles at all upon install and usage, only this app.

Wasn't just a security thing, but a huge inconvenience I don't want to happen again, so I just uninstalled. As you can read, I'm not the only user that feels this way/has this experience.

EDIT: I see now that ya'll changed it so the extension is no longer needed. Nice work. The app is pretty cool! It might already be a feature I haven't found yet - but I wish I could filter (or sort) by date. I look up a lot of stocks and articles that are > 3 months old (and sometimes even >1 mos old) are not of value.

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by somenewaccount1 »

richardsocher wrote: post #260
somenewaccount1 wrote: post #135

I installed the plugin and it instantly mucked up my chrome profiles. It felt very disconcerting and I instantly removed it. I imagine most users might not have multiple chrome profiles and so wouldn't notice, but for me it was an instant stop. What are you doing with profiles? Why does it need to be installed as a plugin?

That's a Chrome setting. We dont change anything in your profile. I guess folks here have a lot of reasonable doubts about extensions. I get it. I hate them also because many follow you around to all the sites you visit, etc. Surprisingly nobody mentioned all day that the ONLY permission this app has is to change your navbar setting. Chrome says that so clearly when you install it :) The reason to install it is to ha…

What chrome setting changed my profiles with an extension installation?

Why does it only happen with your extension and not the hundreds of others I have installed without this problem?

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by richardsocher »

lesolorzanova wrote: post #412

You know what would be great? to add the date in which the source became available, or the date of the "accepted answer", or the date of the last edit. Many SO answers and answers in forums are more than a decade old. I signed up and will try t out, I am doing all my searches in you.com now

That's a great suggestion! It's very high on our feature backlog and we'll add it soon :)

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by swethmandava »

prawn wrote: post #325
not2b wrote: post #185

Nope. Not if there's no way to even try it out without installing an extension.

I assumed people were exaggerating about the extension being pushed too strongly, but I couldn't even test a simple search to check the results or see how it looked. Incredible.

We heard you, the extension requirement is now gone. Looking forward to your feedback once you get a chance to try it :)

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by swethmandava »

Ycros wrote: post #300

I stared at the landing page for a while and couldn't figure out what it does. It wants me to install an extension to find out, no thanks.

The extension requirement is now gone. Looking forward to your feedback once you get a chance to try it :)

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by swethmandava »

klintcho wrote: post #341
iansinnott wrote: post #340

The site no longer requires installing an extension, so it seems they have indeed been responsive to feedback. (Please excuse the redundancy if this has already been noted)

They still do though, just checked.

The extension requirement is now gone. Check it out :) Let me know if you have any issues
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