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The site says privacy-first and also says "we cannot lose your data if we never collect it" but it makes a WHOLE lot of POST calls passing what appear to be encrypted payloads, and refuses to work offline-- so the user has no way to verify that the limited info you claim to be collecting is in fact what is being collected. Worse, if you simply visit and use the site, you never once see any mention of terms of use, and yet those published terms-- which you will only find if you actively scroll way down to the bottom of the SPA and click on a tiny link-- and claim to be binding merely by the use of the site, which could have easily happened without the user having any knowledge or notice whatsoever that they "agreed" to something (in other words, without actually agreeing to anything). The terms also do not say anything about your data collection, though if one looks hard enough one can find it mentioned in the privacy policy, well below the contradictory opening line that says "we cannot lose your data if we never collect it". Sorry, but meta data is still data, so "we never collect [your data]" is simply false.

So, maybe you did not intend it to be so, but to me the site comes off as being very sketchy and untrustworthy.

parent mattewong 11 months ago

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