Why did you used fingerprint js in the code?

sparticleinc / chatgpt-google-summary-extension

Chrome extension to view ChatGPT summaries alongside Google search results and YouTube videos, also supports Yahoo! ニュース、PubMed、PMC、NewsPicks、Github、Nikkei、 Bing、Google Patents, and any page summary.

https://glarity.app

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Why did you used fingerprint js in the code? #185

Closed HakaishinShwet closed 4 months ago

HakaishinShwet commented 6 months ago

Do you track users who are using this addon/extension. Dev can you explain the purpose of using this in this addon because whoever has purchased the plan of glarity you can track them even without fingerprint js i believe from server and logs. so why use fingerprinting.

givebest commented 6 months ago

We use fingerprint js to create a unique ID for non-logged-in users.

HakaishinShwet commented 5 months ago

@givebest yeah i thought so but what is the use of making unique id of users who are not logged.And what kind of data is sent glarity server or somewhere. The reason i am asking is because you also know very well that this unique id with any tracking data can be sold to others and i havent seen full code yet but extension do have permissions of accessing urls and other data so if it is been send to server then it will hurt privacy for sure and thats why i wanted to know about it from you

andsofine commented 4 months ago

@givebest I'm also curious

givebest commented 4 months ago

Thanks for the feedback, we have removed the fingerprint js in the latest review version.