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Comment by kylelibra | Hacker News Reader

The post offers Full Contact (http://www.fullcontact.com/) and Vibe (http://vibeapp.co/) as alternatives. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

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https://ark.com/mail

http://www.connect6.com/Home/ChromeExtensionDetail

http://falcon.io/ (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/fcbcnboheai...)

Are these plugins sending every visited web page to their servers, or is this done when the user clicks/hovers on a name/profile?

I can't talk about others. I'm the founder of Vibe. We take privacy very seriously. We don't read anything more than we should. All we do is 'mark' the emails right in your inbox/page. When you hover/click an email, we send just that email to the server and returns the data,

Vibe just uses FullContact (see their FAQ) who's data is pretty incomplete.

Connect6 uses LeadFerret to power their plugin, which is even worse.

Hey Priley, Vibe uses FullContact. However, it is not just FC. We have other sources, our own crawlers and APIs as well. This is why we are steadily getting improvement in our data. PS: I'm the founder of Vibe.

Collabspot (http://www.collabspot.com) is also doing this. It is using the data from fullcontact as well that is not as good as the one from rapportive. Collabspot's focus is more on showing/editing your CRM data (salesforce, sugarcrm, highrise) than public info.

Disclaimer: i am the founder.

This looks almost exactly like Rapportive:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rapporto/lobacefbn...

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