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Posted by bartb
Mar 5, 2019 at 10:08 PM
A powerful document manager for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing web content, books, and notes - supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress.
Anybody familiar with this product?
All comments welcome.
Posted by washere
Mar 6, 2019 at 04:09 AM
Basically misleadingly calls a system-wide file-manager spyware a browser ‘cookie’. Then sends your constant activity and computer data using your computer, constant memory usage and processing power and paid for electricity making an archive of your daily activity by the hour forever to themselves (second party) and also another unknown group called “a third party”. They seem not to be fluent in the English language. Is it Chinese intel or Russian intel or is it a simple business venture by one of New York’s five Cosa Nostra families? Oh goodie, or is it just some innocent ransomware state blackmailers in North Korea? They do not identify themselves or at least I could not see who they are nor find the usual “about us” generic copy and pasted BS blurb.
QUOTE:
We use cookies to track your usage.
We use cookies to track your usage and to determine which features are used to improve the quality of Polar.
Additionally, we track application errors which helps us find bugs and to prioritize which issues to fix.
This data is sent to 3rd parties which provide the infrastructure necessary to provide the analytics services needed to analyze and store the data.
We avoid sending personally identifiable information at all times.
Cloud storage and privacy.
When using Polar cloud sync we store your data in the cloud and authentication / authorization is controlled by the auth provider you select.
We do not sell your private data. Your private data is your and we’re not interested in selling, monetizing, or distributing it to 3rd parties except when necessary to provide data storage services.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 6, 2019 at 09:49 AM
Hm, interesting, washere. I assume you’ve discovered this spyware by testing the app?
The GitHub site looks fairly innocuous (https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf), and the product looks quite interesting (although there are many very capable open-source readers already in existence).
Cheers!
Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 6, 2019 at 09:51 AM
The Polarized blog is actually quite entertaining! Here it is: https://getpolarized.io/blog/
Posted by washere
Mar 6, 2019 at 11:35 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Hm, interesting, washere. I assume you’ve discovered this spyware by
>testing the app?
>
>The GitHub site looks fairly innocuous
>(https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf), and the product looks
>quite interesting (although there are many very capable open-source
>readers already in existence).
>
>Cheers!
>Bill
Bill, the text I quoted self-declares it, it’s their own words.
Anyone can open an anonymous account on GitHub as I did or they did.
They also say they send this constant data gathered from their system-wide file-manager ‘cookie’ spyware on your computer not only to one ‘third party’ group but multi third party groups: ‘third parties’.
I did quite a bit of searching last night. The only clues I found about the “we” they self referred to (who had difficulty with basic English) was a name (Ken Burton) with no details and seemed fake. And a photo which seemed to be from a royalty free stock photo bank.
Can we assume your encouragement of this app to members means you’ve installed it yourself? Or not? And encouraging others to test it first?
I did not click the Accept button and uninstalled and cleaned the system and registry. It does not install to the usual program folder/program folder(86) but (as in a minority of apps) to the user section.
If you’ve installed this yourself and using it, how is it? Are you liking it?
Cheers Bill.