![]() I can forward your request to our developers to remove your survey entry from the system. I’m sorry if it looks like we violated your privacy. The survey you took isn’t associated with us meaning that it looks like just another survey form, technically. We do not share any information with Google. ![]() If you do have a Google account, they already have your Google account name and photo which you added at some point earlier creating your account. You can’t fill the survey form unless you sign in with your Google account. To my surprise, I got an email the following day. ![]() I sent it off into the ether, not really expecting a response. Upon clicking next, however, I was shocked to see this notification: This is normal in the creation of surveys – you use these fields as validation criteria, and it makes a great deal of sense. The survey began and ended with a request for my (registered) email address, which I gave. This was enough of an enticement for me to complete the survey, which I did in good faith. The Enticement SurveyĪbout a week ago, I received a survey from Cocoatech about my usage of Pathfinder in exchange for a 15% discount on an upgrade to the next version. Instead, this is about how Cocoatech has – perhaps without realizing it, it’s unclear – opened up privacy breaches that should be pointed out, if only as a cautionary tale for developers and users alike. This is not a review of Pathfinder itself, aside to say that as a program it is remarkably useful on older MacOS versions (it has progressively become more unstable as Apple releases newer OS editions, however). Enter Cocoatech’s PathfinderĪs Apple has removed functionality (or made it more difficult) to navigate the file system, Cocoatech has made up the difference with it’s very good program, Pathfinder. It’s just one of those things that has always been there, and it is the key, central place that every user manages the files.Īs Apple has progressively tightened its stranglehold around the neck of its users, removing functionality and features (and often downright making things absolutely impossible), it has become more and more important for me to find workarounds that will allow me to get work done using tools that will stay out of the way. The Finder is a very simple file management program that is the water that user fish forget is there. If you are a user of Apple’s Mac platform, you are familiar with the Finder program. ![]()
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