Re: How to turn off obnoxious Aloha desktop browser "Snips" tool?

From	Marion <mariond@facts.com>
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Subject	Re: How to turn off obnoxious Aloha desktop browser "Snips" tool?
Date	2025-11-11 10:55 -0700
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Marion wrote:
>> https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/04/23/cyprus-based-aloha-browser-launches-ai-powered-snips-tool-tackling-tab-overload
>> "When additional computing power is required, Snips seek user consent
>> before securely and temporarily connecting to Aloha’s encrypted servers."

Hi Paul,

I should have addressed that issue.

So far that hasn't been asked of me, but I only recently installed Aloha
version 4.11.0.0 over 4.10.0.0 and, I click the Snips recommendation away.

But you found a GREAT potential privacy hole, where I will need to try the
Snips to see HOW it "asks" for permission to go to the Aloha AI server.

If it is OBVIOUS (and easy to permanently turn off with a single click),
then it's probably OK. But if it's like cookies where I have to constantly
tell every newspaper site I don't want their damn cookies, then it's a
problem.

On every site I visit, I'm always unique, where it irks me the web sites
which make accepting non-essential cookies easier than rejecting them.

I appreciate that you FOUND that there was this POTENTIAL security hole!

What I'll do is accept the damn Snips prompt and test it out a bit.
I'll try to make it data intensive so that it ASKS for the net AI server.

If it does that, and if it gives me a single-shot control to say no,
then I'm ok with that.

But if I have to say no to every single request, then that's a problem.

The reason I posted again was to THANK YOU for finding that potential
privacy hole which I hadn't realized even existed until you said so!

Much appreciated!
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How to turn off obnoxious Aloha desktop browser "Snips" tool? Marion <mariond@facts.com> - 2025-11-10 20:43 -0700
  Re: How to turn off obnoxious Aloha desktop browser "Snips" tool? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-11 02:32 -0500
    Re: How to turn off obnoxious Aloha desktop browser "Snips" tool? Marion <mariond@facts.com> - 2025-11-11 10:49 -0700
      Re: How to turn off obnoxious Aloha desktop browser "Snips" tool? Marion <mariond@facts.com> - 2025-11-11 10:55 -0700

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