It looks good so far. It seems it found quite a few of my accounts, but when it stopped scanning Gmail, it said it found 2 accounts. Going to the dashboard shows it found 23.
I don't know if it's possible (or if it already does), but it'd be nice to see why it thinks I have an account with a place. It says I have a Bank of America account, but I use a local credit union.
Will this recognize if I've installed Ghostery? I have it installed, but have only installed it just a few days ago, before I joined this site. How does it know if you need to install it, or does it just say that for everyone? I also have Adblock installed and have since 2007, but it's telling me to install it.
I like that I can add multiple email addresses, but it did seem like it hung when I added new addresses, and no accounts showed up when I added my other gmail accounts and it didn't ask me for authentication for them. I'm not sure they got added properly. I'll check again when I get home.
Also, this:
>In August of 2011, professional social network Linkedin quietly introduced a new feature called social ads. It allowed companies to use photos of any of your contacts, with whom they, had a connection, in their adverts, effectively allowing your contact’s to endorse their products.
Excessive number of commas, I think.
Overall, though, it's given me a list of things I would never have known about. I have not followed any of the suggestions yet but I'll run through them when I get home from work. Very nice design, it works quick, and it found a good number of accounts. Are there plans to add more sites to the list or more sources for scanning accounts?
We are likely saying you have a BoA account because of an email which they sent you. Showing "how we know" is a good suggestion but would involve us storing some info from your email (which I imagine people who care about privacy are against)
no, it doesn't know if you have ghostery or adblock installed, just tells everyone to do this
multiple addresses: we thought we had this bug squashed, apparently not. Shouldn't be an issue in the future
Glad you find the suggestions useful. If there is pickup, we'll add more account types (currently we scan for about 250) and tutorials.
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It looks good so far. It seems it found quite a few of my accounts, but when it stopped scanning Gmail, it said it found 2 accounts. Going to the dashboard shows it found 23.
I don't know if it's possible (or if it already does), but it'd be nice to see why it thinks I have an account with a place. It says I have a Bank of America account, but I use a local credit union.
Will this recognize if I've installed Ghostery? I have it installed, but have only installed it just a few days ago, before I joined this site. How does it know if you need to install it, or does it just say that for everyone? I also have Adblock installed and have since 2007, but it's telling me to install it.
I like that I can add multiple email addresses, but it did seem like it hung when I added new addresses, and no accounts showed up when I added my other gmail accounts and it didn't ask me for authentication for them. I'm not sure they got added properly. I'll check again when I get home.
Also, this:
>In August of 2011, professional social network Linkedin quietly introduced a new feature called social ads. It allowed companies to use photos of any of your contacts, with whom they, had a connection, in their adverts, effectively allowing your contact’s to endorse their products.
Excessive number of commas, I think.
Overall, though, it's given me a list of things I would never have known about. I have not followed any of the suggestions yet but I'll run through them when I get home from work. Very nice design, it works quick, and it found a good number of accounts. Are there plans to add more sites to the list or more sources for scanning accounts?
*edit - formatting
Thanks for this.
We are likely saying you have a BoA account because of an email which they sent you. Showing "how we know" is a good suggestion but would involve us storing some info from your email (which I imagine people who care about privacy are against)
no, it doesn't know if you have ghostery or adblock installed, just tells everyone to do this
multiple addresses: we thought we had this bug squashed, apparently not. Shouldn't be an issue in the future
Glad you find the suggestions useful. If there is pickup, we'll add more account types (currently we scan for about 250) and tutorials.