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It's pretty creepy that I can randomly enter email adresses and get first and last names... !

• listic 11y ago
  ok, how does that work: did all those people sign up with Magic?
  • gboudrias 11y ago
    Based on other comments, the info is bought off Clearbit. You can opt out here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim https://claim.clearbit.com/claim
    • CaptSpify 11y ago
      That just kept re-directing me to enter my email. I was never able to opt-out
      • Raphmedia 11y ago
        It sends you a confirmation email. Inside this email is a link to your profile. You can either add information (linkedin, facebook, angellist, etc.) or delete your profile. I deleted my profile.
        • CaptSpify 11y ago
          the "link to my profile" is just a link to the same submission form for "claiming" my profile. I filled that out, and got another link to the same place.
          • delbel 11y ago
            Welcome to Clearbit!
            • CaptSpify 11y ago
              heh, yeah. I'm pretty sure all that did was sign me up for more spam/marketing-tracking. hooray
• simi_ 11y ago
  Tried some short gmail handles, can confirm. Creepy and stupid. Cloud-based datastores coming with your browser (aka what Chrome has* and probably its competitors too) have better performance, privacy, and UX; I can't think of any reason why I'd use something like this. * - AFAIU if you set a sync passphrase you also get some (probably limited) form of "zero knowledge" client-side encryption; this makes me hopeful they implemented it properly i.e. "we literally can't access your shit" https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en