jhaimson

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   by jhaimson 13y ago

   Decided to get rid of this tracking entirely. The newest update doesn't make any calls to any server to deal with concerns over privacy.
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   by jhaimson 13y ago

   Yeah, I realize this method is open to abuse. I just figured that the counter really was more of a "nice-to-have" so I can see how many times it was working, but if someone really wanted to abuse it than it wouldn't be that
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   by jhaimson 13y ago

   Good point, I accidentally left in these excess permissions from when I was first building it. Removing them now and submitting an update, thanks for letting me know!
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   by jhaimson 13y ago

   Thanks for letting me know! Was it this link that caused the issue for you? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C0ALZ0W?ie=UTF8&tag=rand... For some reason, it seems to be working fine for me.
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   by jhaimson 13y ago

   I completely understand - this was one of our major concerns when we were deciding whether or not we should count redirects. If you look at the function incrementCounter() in the code ( https://github.com/Jdhaimson/smil
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   by jhaimson 13y ago

   Yes, this will also redirect affiliate links
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   Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charities while on Amazon(smilealways.io)

   51 points by jhaimson 13y ago|32 comments