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		RaphiePS on Jan 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This startup tells you when companies try your com... I got the sense that they're scraping the customer's site every day. So they might find a new JS library or CSS file from a competitor. Paypal might want to know when a customer starts trying out Stripe, and KISSmetrics probably cares when people start using Mixpanel.

alttab on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

As a customer, I feel unfairly targeted without my participation for the profit of a third party. This makes money, but it does not make the world a better place to want to live in.

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