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24 points by parsabg on March 13, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The Text Analysis add-on is asking for too many permissions. Is that really necessary? Cool hack though.


That's a good point and it's understandable if it's a cause for concern, but there's not much we can do about it as far as I know since we write the results directly in your spreadsheets; and the add-on, once installed, is present in all your spreadsheets. We need your email address in order to manage your credits and verify your credit purchases through Google Wallet.

Most other add-ons require the same permissions, so I think the permission titles could use a bit of clarification.

All that said, this is something to have in mind and improve for sure.




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