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Doesn't really work for Google accounts that have reasonable privacy configuration, in which case it only tells you the email (which you specified), the account
by formerly_proven 6y ago
Doesn't really work for Google accounts that have reasonable privacy configuration, in which case it only tells you the email (which you specified), the account ID, the main account name and last profile edit. Of these the main account name might be the real name for many people, but I don't think that's required. The account name is also publicly used by Google in a whole bunch of places (e.g. when you read a Google Docs doc).
It also lists Youtube channels with similar names, which is generally wrong.
- grezql 6y agoI think even if 99% of google users have strict privacy, this tool is still worth it for data brokers as they can run email lists of millions of users. And every data about a user that can be connected to the rest of the master data is gold as its all about the network effect. edit: https://imgur.com/a/o2petUC https://imgur.com/a/o2petUC here is a good example. The white box is from a publically available dataleak of a site called SexDating.se. its 10 years old db. but still i managed to extract the name of the person even though the original DB had no identifiers apart from this gmail.
- timeisweird0 6y agoThey can run profiles for lots of email accounts that might not be used. A profile update time stamp isn’t necessarily “I used gmail.” Google might also notice some random script continually querying for every user. Seems like a lot of setup for a spammer when lists of Gmail emails are already floating around.