Comments on “Slik Prospector
Dave Cooper@dave_cooper · Programmer
The product itself looks great. However, the permissions given to chrome seem a bit too much. "Read and change data on all linkedin.com sites", "read your browsing history" and "communicate with cooperating sites" seems a bit over the top to be able to deliver the functionality that the product is claiming. @stefanstok are you able to go over each of these p… See more
Stefan Stokic@stefanstok · Co-founder @ Slik
@dave_cooper Definitely! Would love to explain. - LinkedIn: We simply need access to be able to place our button on the page and figure out which email to search for. - Read your browser history: This is a permission that allows us to access the URL that you are on, e.g if you are on linkedin.com, prospector.slik.ai. We track nothing other than that with t… See more
Dave Cooper@dave_cooper · Programmer
@stefanstok Perfect! Thank you for clarifying this! Going to give this a go now :)
✎ Andrew Warner@andrewwarner
@dave_cooper chrome needs to fix its permissions. We shouldn't have to give tons of control when developers don't need (or, you can see) want all that data.