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This thread needs to be killed. The website looks exactly like HN with most of the content from HN, but has some fishy looking links embedded to look like HN upvoted stories.

For someone like me who opens multiple tabs at one time, it would be easy to think that I was on HN and click through the fishy links.

1) Online: I just skim articles to find something that interest me. I am not in "knowledge absorbing" mode at this time. It's mostly just fun/boredom. I try to limit how much time I spend reading online. Offline: I read for either knowledge (business books, non-fiction) or for pure pleasure (fiction). For both the cases, my kindle has my full attention. No computer, no mobile phone, no distractions.

2) If the word makes no sense, I will check the meaning. However, if I am not completely sure about the meaning, I might still carry on as it helps not to get distracted from reading.

3) I read for 3-4 hours at a time and make sure it is at a time when I have peace and quiet and uninterrupted time.

Few questions for you before any advice can be given

1. Do you have any official documentation over the ownership of startup?

2. If so, how much do you and the other founder each own and what are the vesting periods?

3. Does the CEO have any equity and if so, what is his vesting period?

4. When you voiced your concern with your founder, what else did he say? Did he brush aside your concerns or adequately address them, while saying that keeping the CEO in place is important for the business.

Thanks for the reply. I'm fine with any location for the server. Right now, just looking at keeping the costs down.

I try and spend 20-30 minutes everyday going through the "new" tab and up-voting the new submissions I find interesting (think of it like volunteer work). Somehow I tend to up vote Ask HNs more often than posts that are links to website.

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.

AFAIK - Yes. The developer could potentially run the analytics in the background html and from the content scripts track events sending the url as parameters.

I've seen loads of extensions that use Google Analytics to track user behavior. They of course post this on the details page with a link to the Opt-Out.

Could you tell us more about the "new analytics startup"? It seems like that's the code the reviewer was referring to (which you have said is no longer there in the extension)

If you can tell us about your customer segment, we would be better able to give you suggestions.

As an example, ads do not work very well for a highly technical crowd, like the ones using HN, but might work wonderfully for others.

A demo or some screenshots would definitely help me understand how this works. I understand what it does, but have no idea how it does that. Most people wouldn't bother signing up without that info.

Also, as you scroll down, there is a very large amount of white space, which seems to be just wasting screen real estate.

All the best to you.