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Comment by greattypo | Hacker News Reader

I want to love Greplin. I hate gmail search, and would kill for anything better. But giving a startup a complete database of my e-mails? That is a little scary.

Anyone else have the same concerns?

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Yep. And above it looks like they use IMAP IDLE to watch for new mail in your account, which presumably means they need your real Google password, and don't go through the OAuth stuff (unless Google's IMAP server has an alternate auth method). Deal-breaker for me.

Having access to all of my data... well... Google already has access to all my data, and they were once a startup. Of course, Greplin could get bought by a company with a poor privacy track record. So there's that to consider. I'm not sure that alone would keep me away from the service, but it might.

Sigh... but it is really cool.

EDIT: Neeeeevermind, just saw this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452068

Yes. Scares me too much to even consider the service.

Maybe it would be okay to use Greplin for company mail stuff where technically the company already owns all of your emails anyway -- of course they'd have to deploy Greplin company wide though.

People said the same thing about Mint, but things worked out pretty nicely for them..

Same here, I would pay good money for the offline version. Personally this falls into the category of "too much risk not enough benefits"

Deal breaker here.

Giving a company, start-up or not, access to _all_ my data just so I can search easily? Not a chance.

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