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Is it safe to use Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail?

ReviewSaurus [PersonRank 1]

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
17 years ago4,097 views

I was just wondering that is it safe if we use the Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail, because in the program policies of Gmail (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/program_policies.html) it is stated in the prohibited actions :

"Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the Gmail Service"

So, my question is that, can this lead to termination of account???

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I don't think so. Greasemonkey is mostly JavaScript code, which runs locally and reformats or adds new functionalities only for you.

Mihai Parparita (who works at Google Reader) wrote a lot of great Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail:
http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/

Pau Tomàs [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

That's what Matt Cutts responded when Phillip asked about the subject:

"Philipp Lenssen, it wouldn’t be my place to comment on Gmail’s policies about stuff like that, but I can tell you that people here love Greasemonkey. The only times I’ve seen trouble with 3rd party stuff + Gmail was when people were doing abusive stuff (e.g. a 3rd party notifier that was checking 1000 times/second for new email)."

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-solid-gmail-productivity-tips/#comment-98705

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

We should'nt have to use GreaseMonkey (and I don't use it). The javascript codes should be built-in Gmail code by the Googlers, if the GreaseMonkey scripts are cool and/or useful, of course.

ReviewSaurus [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Well, Thanks everyone for the input. I guess Matt's answer was good enough to tell us that we can use the script, till the point its not abusing the system. Thanks a lot everyone for the input :)

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