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Toucan teaches you new skills while you browse the web

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Re: Toucan teaches you new skills while you browse the web

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I can imagine a lot of ways how this might work, but the website does not explain much. Maybe it should have a short screencast as an example. Or at least screenshots. I also assume this collects a lot of data on the user? How is that handled?

Yes, a screencast would be nice, but more than that, there's no Privacy Policy? Edit: there is, but they don't link to it on the homepage https://jointoucan.com/privacy-policy

Also that privacy policy says nothing, and seem to just be copy pasted from the Internet.

If this is the company's approach on handling very private user data (ie. the contents of a number of websites they visit, including facebook, airbnb, office365, all of google.com), then this is a hard pass from me, and a huge red flag.

EDIT: here's a list of all sites the extension accesses: https://paste.q3k.org/paste/uj-GbID4#g7IYwrXiF6zXlnlxQYguMlr...

EDIT2: looking at the source code of the extension (extracted from the source map), it at least tracks and sends off any tab hostname (or URL?) you've visited: https://paste.q3k.org/paste/gxklokkF#055mmZ9Qu-zeiAwXGpWqSpw... , for any of the URLs in the allowed URLs list (which in turn has some websites whitelisted that you really might not want others to know you have visited)

EDIT3: if I read the code correctly, they actually send off the entire URL, not just the hostname. But someone would have to check this in practice to be sure.

Re: Toucan teaches you new skills while you browse the web

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I get a mostly-empty page[0] on Win 10 with Firefox 76 and cookies blocked from cdnjs.cloudlfare and js.stripe. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/LHCYCCw.png

At the time of this comment the majority of other comments are all about how the page doesn't work. It is broken for me in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile safari. I don't understand how a page this broken makes it to the #13 slot of HN.

Re: Toucan teaches you new skills while you browse the web

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What I gathered from the website is that Toucan can swap in "comida" for "food"; I can pretty well extrapolate the language-learning function from that example. But, um, does it do anything else?

It probably sends your data to their server so you have the comfort of knowing your browsing history is being backed up.
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