Snax, why does you extension want to see my clipboard?
Thanks to @whatsup for pointing out what most of us didn't realize.
I feel totally ashamed of promoting a service that is spying on its users without clearly stating it on their website.
Snax's wallet comes as a Chrome extension, which gets these sneaky permissions once you install it.
So, basically, amongst other things, it can read your posting or active keys if you ever copy and paste them into, for example, your Steem Wallet.
Who knows what they do with this data?
This is an open question to the @snaxteam, maybe they want to answer us in the comments of this post...
In my opinion, this is a sneaky practice, and another example of how we give up our privacy for a handful of coins that don't even have any value, at least not yet.
I am uninstalling their extension, and yes I will keep my keys safe (just in case these coins are worth something, so I can sell them).
My question to the Snax team is:
WHY DO YOU NEED TO READ MY CLIPBOARD (amongst other things)?
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@snaxteam, care to clarify?
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Hi, @greencross, I am from @SnaxTeam. Browser extension is needed to use snax.one UI to bind your social accounts to Snax and to make transactions (just a wallet functions).
All the content you create, is grabbed automatically by the oracle
the whole code of Snax extension is open sourced https://github.com/SnaxFoundation/snax-browser-extension. We use clipboard permission to copy mnemonic phase which can be used to create an asymmetric private key. Also we use it to copy your export private key: But that’s it. You can see the same permissions for Google Docs Offline, for example
wonderful, thanks for the clarification. May this serve to clear up the concerns of other users as well.
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