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At Rapleaf, your personals are public

• JacobAldridge 17y ago
  A seemingly good analysis. I remember when Rapleaf launched as the public alternative to the closed (and therefore limited) eBay rating system - I bookmarked it as a potentially beneficial tool in the future. Now it would appear it has crossed several of my personal ethical lines, but when it comes to putting information out on the net we can't say we haven't been warned.
  • bigmac 17y ago
    Interesting that you would say they cross your ethical lines. Their tagline used to be "It is more profitable to be ethical." See: http://web.archive.org/web/20070102022215/http://www.rapleaf.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070102022215/http://www.rapleaf...
• petewarden 17y ago
  Here's another article from a marketer's perspective giving more detail on how they're using Rapleaf for payday loan leads, amongst other things: http://www.leadconfidential.com/rapleaf-social-media-data-lead-generators.html http://www.leadconfidential.com/rapleaf-social-media-data-le... I've found Rapleaf to be a bit spotty in its coverage, often not discovering accounts on services like Facebook and Twitter that deny API access for the email lookup. I won't pimp my test page for it again (it's on the blog in my profile), but you can also go to their site to see what they have on you.
• ddraper83 17y ago
  This article is over 2 years old. Clearly outdated. You may like to check out their site...they're not doing a lot of this anymore.