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Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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remixz wrote: post #39
chaboud wrote: post #7

This seems like a spectacular way to break permissions restrictions and escape data to non-authorized entities. If it's successful, it's the sort of thing that will be brutally blocked by IT all over the place. Very slick, though.

(I'm an EM at Plus) Yeah, we think about the permissions/data escape a lot. I'm glad to see others are commenting with scrutiny too. We've put a lot of effort into our security model, since we know that we're handling very sensitive data. To give a bit of a peek in: All of the session data we store is encrypted with a key unique to each organization, managed through AWS KMS. We've also built a fully event driven arch…

As someone in IT, but as a lowly technician, medium and large companies are leaning more and more towards a locked down Microsoft, Google, or Apple platform with managed browsers with extension whitelists, and whitelist allowed OS apps only via MDM.

It's both a tech and management thing. Management likes the control and less risk, and having one console to login to as opposed to 4 makes things easier for IT.

Just a general comment.

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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gizmo wrote: post #30

This seems cool at first glance... but will users understand that this tool basically hijacks your user session to refresh the screenshots? In other words, this tool can only update a google analytics chart if you give it access to your gmail? That's scary. It also circumvents 2fa, because sessions are leaked to Plus after you've used your TOTP code or Yubi key. How can any business be OK with this??

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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).

There seem to be a lot of those chrome video recording/school ones, like Loom. Seems like a lot of schools use it to record lessons. Being on Chromebooks I would think they are used to installing extensions, if allowed! Usually that is on a whitelist basis.

Do not know how much money it brings in though.

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Post by wongarsu »

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).

It depends on your definition of success, but the list is bound to include Adblock, Grammarly, Honey and some password manager. And at least Grammarly and Honey are not specifically targeted at computer literate people.

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eigenvalue wrote: post #44

This functionality reminds me a networked version of an obscure (but sometimes useful) Excel feature, the "Camera Tool": https://trumpexcel.com/excel-camera-tool/ Basically, it lets you select a range on a worksheet, and then shows a live updating picture of that range in a new region (possibly in a different sheet). Why is that useful? Well, the range can contain charts in addition to just cells with data. It can be…

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