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Looks like a pretty nice extension which I might use if I was not so concerned about someone having access to my emails.

It's precisely the same reason I don't use Rapportive or any such social CRM. I understand it's not in the interest of startups but I am rather little too apprehensive when it comes to my emails.

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(I'm the author),

I don't blame you for being concerned, but I can assure you that no personal data leaves your computer. The processing happens by accessing Gmail metadata and processing on the client-side. Feel free to inspect the source (which is in JS, although it has been minified) or watch outgoing requests.

I too am careful about what extensions I install and tend to look at their source to see what they're doing and what external urls they're using (if any) for piece of mind. Aside from downloading and inspecting the source directly, there is also an extension that allows you to inspect other extensions right on the Chrome Extension Gallery so you don't need to install or download them to see what they're up to.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bbamfloeabgknfkl...

I appreciate the concern re:Rapportive, but I love it! Particularly when it tells me about the authors when I am reading a technical list. Let's hope they don't get hacked and disclose all of our emails...

Sam from Rapportive here: even if we got hacked, we couldn't possibly disclose your emails, because we don't have them. We don't read your emails and our servers don't have access to them.

Also, thanks for the plug :)

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