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We’ve been delivering TimeSnapper on windows for a decade and have never done anything to encourage or support that kind of “customer”.

We’re popular with freelancers and accountants and developers and people interested in personal productivity.

Every now and then there are people who ask for features that involve hiding timesnapper or centralising its output... we direct them to read the EULA and ask them to uninstall the product as they’re not someone we’re interested in dealing with.

If I wouldn’t want it done to me I don’t help people do it to others: end of story.

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Have you considered any of the following to protect privacy & mitigate eavesdropping:

+ password or SSO protection for access to the app's data (use Kerberos/AD SSO for credentials?)

+ an end-user controlled encrypted store for the data & screenshots (FUSE/WinFSP?)

+ a daily local push/popup notification displayed to the logged-in user with... a) app status b) data summary c) a quick action to toggle the background recording service on/off

Just my $.02. Cheers!

All good suggestions ankushnarula!

In the Windows version you can password protect the images. Because they're stored locally there hasn't been a massive uptake in this feature, but some people do use it.

The icon is not easily hidden from the task tray (and we don't provide any option to encourage that). We found a daily notification too intrusive (as users ourselves).

I'm sorry if my comment came across as negative, and I completely accept that it does! I wasn't trying to crap on what's clearly a well-loved tool, more to make a wry joke. However I'm glad that it's given you the opportunity to make that point about the EULA and prohibited uses.

I like the idea of the tool a lot, I absolutely get the benefits of it and once it's in public release I'll very likely use it on my home machine for those 'retention' reasons you talk about. I love the idea of being able to replay a usage session.

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