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This is the most stupid & perhaps unethical way of 'powering' your search engine in history.

Paying a developer to include a web crawler in their extension? Whilst using the users' bandwidth?

I hope 'Datafiniti' fades out pretty damn soon.

Why all the hate? So far it just looks like a monetization tool to embed in a Chrome extension. Nothing says it's going to run there by default. We have no info on the presence or absence of compulsory disclaimers. Nor do we have any info about the default quotas of daily processing per install.

If the extension provides value to the user, it might be a way to compensate the provider for the said value. The same way ads compensate the provider of apps. In either case, computing time and bandwidth are used.

Now, having said that, if it ran 24/7 and used GBs of bandwidth per day on a single node, I would definitely side with you. But if it was embedded in a way where you get extra value once you enable it, that's another question.

To be a little clearer, I'm only completely against this when it's enabled within an extension by default; therefore crawling the web without the end users' knowledge.

If it's something you can enable, then it isn't so bad. This should ultimately be a choice that the user makes.

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