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Comment by samsheen | Hacker News Reader

I just noticed that the said "bully" has stated in his comments that you had integrated inspectlet.com. I checked it out and it looks like a screen recording service. If this is truly the case, then I think he may be correct as interpreting this as a violation of privacy.

I think the best course of action would be to do the following

1. Put up code on github as others have suggested, thereby reassuring existing users

2. Publicly state in a reply to the comment that you had indeed integrated the screen recording service to help you understand user behavior, so that you could make a better app.

3. Put a disclaimer on the details page for Google Analytics with a link to opt out.

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"Bully" is not for that comment or his words (Ofcourse he should have contacted me first) but for the following: (copied from below comments)

1). more than 20 1-ratings (You cannot see these 20-25 negative ratings as there are were no text reviews written with it.) 2). mass complaints sent to Google that day. 3). And my app rating came down from 5 to 4, thats a huge setback on the competitive end. (Lost the app's repo which took an year to build) 4). Few false reviews which have been cross-upvoted so all new users sees them on top. And my reply down-voted by the same group that it was removed completely by Chrome.

And there has never been such thing as Inspectlet in the app, and also the person who commented this is not communicating with me, so I would let this one go. And thus no need for that statement. Will make the app opensource, so this will never be an issue in the future, "hopefully".

> And there has never been such thing as Inspectlet in the app

I had downloaded the crx file before you removed Inspectlet. Yes. There was such a thing as Inspectlet in the app, and it was used specifically to record user keystrokes.

> And there has never been such thing as Inspectlet in the app

Looks like you forgot to delete the HTML comment tag, "", from the bottom of popup.html. You may want to do it asap before he "lies" about that too ;)

> Will make the app opensource, so this will never be an issue in the future, "hopefully".

You already made it open-source (https://github.com/Epinx/Sticky-Notes), but then uploaded a separate malicious version to the chrome web store. Open-sourcing it would only give users the impression that it's safe, while giving you a chance to twist and slither away like you just did.

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