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Interesting idea, but the following warning scares the hell out of me: "It can access: Your data on mail.google.com".

Just to note that installing any Chrome extension will give you a similar warning. In fact most of them say "It can access: Your data on all websites." (In Firefox you don't get a scary warning, but it's still true!)

When you install a browser extension you need to trust the extension authors. In this case, rahulvohra's link below may help you decide :)

Privacy is something we thought long and hard about; we go to great lengths to ensure we're doing the right thing.

Please do checkout http://rapportive.com/privacy

Does that help address what was scaring you?

In fact, it does greatly help. You are making a strong privacy statement. Just to explain my initial concern, the warning implied that the extension can read my private mails and that is what triggered my bad feelings.

BTW. It would be great, if Chrome extensions would allow to add a link to the privacy statement which is then displayed in the context of the warning.

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