Reviews & Comments of LBTimer chrome extension

Based on discussion in the LB Facebook group, I looked into this a bit and I'd caution others about installing it. Though coming with a GPL license; the extension author has run the source through an obfuscater to make it difficult for anyone to work on it, even before making payments mandatory, based on what I'm seeing in the old versions. The recent Firebase conversion is what makes using this extension worrisome; I'm not sure if this image will attach to the review, but here's some of the information it sends: https://ibb.co/6spVW0d. If that doesn't load, it shows the following going to the extension author's personal Firebase: - all of your time task data - all of your settings - all account information Google has associated with you, like your full name, email, picture. - *the search queries urls you visit* The latter is asked for in a permissions dialog, but there is nothing that asks whether you want to send the queries you're rating to the author. Lionbridge has been very clear this extension is forbidden to be run, even though many users have taken the risk anyway. However, sending the query URLs is a clear and indefensible violation of the NDA. When the data was in Google Drive, it was only visible to you and this wasn't as much of an issue. The extension author removed that feature, switching to the current Firebase, that gives him access to everyone's data, with the justification it's "more performant". Both services are run by Google, but only the latter removes your own access to your data. Obviously this is part of the subscription service, and when I engaged the extension, it gave permission denied errors without having one. Additionally, all of your data is stored in plaintext within the database as you can (hopefully) see from the image, accessible to the author with the click of a mouse. Given the extension has permissions to run on the time sheet portal (Ultipro) where your social security and other financial information is and the author's willingness to put profit over user's utility, I'd also be concerned about having this installed for that reason. Even if the author never personally does anything nefarious, there's nothing preventing him from selling it to someone who will. I'm personally disappointed to see someone prey on the rater community, given how much else we've had to deal with lately. Since the GPL presumably grants this open source status, maybe someone will defang an older version and release it to the community. Or Tellus will fire the lot of us and make this and its usage irrelevant. If you're in the group, feel free to DM me (Dex) with any questions.

I installed this because it looked like it'd be helpful, but you can't even try it without paying, and after you've installed it, it asks for a whole lot of permissions. It looks like it tries to send all your work data into the author's firebase! From what I can see it used to store it in your local Google Drive appdata and the author changed this before making it a subscription? But without paying you can't even see if it'll properly store the submitted data. I was willing to take the risk using this despite it being explicitly listed by Lionbridge as disallowed but it's so lame there isn't even a basic mode you can test with. This is in addition to it being just after the holidays and some weeks now with barely any tasks. This extension just keeps popping up a thing for payments instead of doing anything useful. The search continues!

Indispensable tool for raters. Subscription pays for itself many times over in increased productivity.

Definitely helps me so much while I rate, since I don't have to keep track of my time....I can actually do more work now for LB!!!! Thank you very much!!!! You are a lifesaver!!!

It doesn't work :( the menu is locked and no button does anything when pressed. Can someone help me?

Great Tools for any raters. Ivan, Hope you able to add feature to send notification if there is task available to telegram or whatsapp messaging application

its many tasks the app not count ,its Lost money pleas help

Great app! I have used the free version and it is just amazing, you can focus on work with the distraction of count the minutes and task. By now I want to subscribe, however, the button in the app send me to play store, and in play store the button to subscribe is grey and doesn't work. What should I do?

pleas i need to download extension but i can not

I think its very useful and has increased my ability to focus on my work rather than the time I am working. Thanks LBTimer, great job

very helpful tool

Love it!

It was working very well until yesterday but today its not working

This tool is really helpful, but today there was a problem, LBtimer did not work, not showing any sign, autoreload and setting button did not work, always show "loading".Please help,thanks

Thank you for a great resource and tool that makes my job as a new rater so much easier! I just tried to send you a donation via PayPal but something went wrong. I will retry again later! Keep up the good work! Your Rater Extension is a real "lifesaver". Once again, thank you! :)

Your LB Timer is a great tool, very helpful for us who become the LB Rater. ps : why it did't work since this morning? the time keep show TSK after the task take.

Fully Meets! The auto refresh is not working.

Great extension.

This tool is very helpful, thanks Nokonoko! I will donate when I receive my first invoice!

It does its work pretty well. But only problem is that it doesn't recognize the exact time of the task when the task's AET is in minutes and seconds like 4 minutes 30 seconds. Otherwise perfect.

All issues fixed now,thank you very much, and specially for the experimental feature. Please keep updating that further. this extension is very much useful for all of us.

Helping my work as a Rater. Kudos!

AWESOME!!! OUTSTANDING chrome extension for LP THX

Love this extension! Thank you so much!

Works perfectly. I love it!

Thanks

nice update , and we wait more .. your good man ;)

thank you it has helped my earning

Great little program. Creator is very quick to reply to emails and fast to update any bugs or issues you might have. :) I like recent features, could still use some polishing or additional add ons but definitely prefer this over other tools I've used or tried in the past.

i just love this tool! has built in auto refresh, notifies me when there are new tasks easily without having me to turn it on and off as i did some other tools i used before. i love everything about this extension! and that one click EAT fill into my LB timesheet?!! AWESOME!! just love love this!

It's stopped working since the latest update.

worked ok but had to uninstall after it kept closing my task pages

The tool works very well and I've been using it for the past 60 days. I'm not sure if this is possible, but it would be nice if the storage of the timer data were cloud based (gdrive?) so that it is easier to work from two or more computers in a day and work from the same sheet. I realize this would add a lot of complexity though.

Excellent Tool!

This extension helps so much!! Accurate and has frequent updates that add to the ease. Thanks so much!! :)))

Excellent tool, but when the land page is Arabic the rating tool at the end of the landing page is flipped in an annoying way,hope that this point is fixed plz

Excellent! Best tool yet. And getting better apparently. 5 stars.