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Post by Flenser » Sat, Jan 22, 2011, 7:56 PM UTC

drtse4 wrote: post #25

dwwoelfel wrote: post #15

I've used this extension, Instapaper's wireless delivery, and Wordcycler (a desktop app that that syncs files from Instapaper when your Kindle is connected to your computer). This extension is better than Instapaper's wireless delivery because it treats each article as a separate "book". Instapaper, on the other hand, groups all the unread articles in a single book with each article as a different chapter. This means…

Am i the only one that checked the content of background.js (in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/[extension-id]/etc... on linux)?

Post by drtse4 » Sun, Jan 23, 2011, 8:44 AM UTC

drtse4 wrote: post #32

Flenser wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for pointing that out. It's also loading the google analytics script. Disabling and reporting! Any idea what it's doing?

I'm inclined to think that the author is not doing anything malicious, the js code is obscured/minified so it's hard to verify that. I'll say that the analytics script has the sole purpose of tracking real usage (the webstore doesn't provide any info on "active" installs). Other than this, the author already received a comment pointing out the existence of readability, i hope he'll update his code soon.