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>> Don't invade my privacy

> so I doubt that we'll be able to do much better than offering an "opt out" feature in our UI.

How about you dont send my every selection to your service UNTIL and UNLESS I do an additional click to ask for contextual information. I really really don't like to not being able to select a frigging text w/o it being sent to seme server.

>> Don't insert text into my cut and paste buffers

> We don't currently do this, but if our users ask for it, there is a good chance we will add it ...

As others just said it can be "translated" as "fuck off, we can make a buck here and we don't care it annoys the hell out of you"

>> Don't pop up windows

> Again, not doing this makes it difficult to have the app in the first place

How about making it much less intrusive. light up some widget in the sidebar or top window corner. not right there where I just clicked obscuring the text under it which I might just be reading.



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