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Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

(mtlynch.io)
1134 points mtlynch | 1 comments | 21 Apr 20 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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voz_ ◴[21 Apr 20 17:50 UTC] No.22937388[source]▶
"Stripe is Silently" - can I just say how much I detest clickbait with "silently" in the title? It is purposefully negative, meant to make Stripe look bad. What did you want? A foghorn?

Also:

`The Stripe library generates a new request like this every time a user views a new page in my app.`

In "your" app! How do you not know all the side effects you dependencies may have when before adding them? What else is going in that site, Michael?

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1. ric2b ◴[21 Apr 20 23:15 UTC] No.22940340[source]▶
> How do you not know all the side effects you dependencies may have when before adding them?

Do you? You've audited 100% of the code you use? At best you're careful when choosing your dependencies and you have a reasonable degree of trust.