Hacker News Reader

Full thread

etaioinshrdlu

Haha, I quietly called them out few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823292

Their CEO is one shady dude. Evasive. Knew his company was sitting on a shady foundation and just kept it going.

Large companies buy Sensor Tower's data.

View on HN

SimilarWeb is another company with millions of funding that is sitting on a shady foundation as well.

Can you elaborate?

They own a bunch of chrome extensions that track all the websites you visit and queries you enter into google

I'm waiting for news about OneTrust, the company handling GDPR/CCPA cookie management for a ziiilllion sites. I can't imagine they aren't getting in on this action.

Come to think of it, isn't the name pretty revealing? You don't build a sensor tower to block and hide information, you build one to collect data.

May as well have called it Eye of Sauron.

Ahh but the users of the VPNs apps have no idea that Sensor Tower is behind the app and collecting and selling their data.

It might be in the terms of service and briefly shown to them, but in the literal, practical sense, the users actually do not know! It is without their knowledge.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com