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By visiting the account and noticing that it still has activity long after the report.
by retlehs 7mo ago
By visiting the account and noticing that it still has activity long after the report.
- hedora 7mo agoHow do you propose GH take action without risking taking down legitimate projects due to brigades of false reports?
- shimman 7mo agoThat they use some of their trillion dollar marketshare to solve it, why are you acting like this is a hard problem? It's not. They're just too cheap and greedy to do anything about it.
- cortesoft 7mo agoTrillion dollar marketshare? How big do you think GitHub is?
- mardef 7mo agoGitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, which has a 3 trillion market cap
- ThrowawayB7 7mo agoOne would expect people on Hacker News to know that a single business division doesn't have direct access to the funds of other business divisions of the same corporation.
- shimman 7mo agoOne would expect people on HN should know that companies subsidize failing BU all the time with their profitable BUs. Sorry but why are you making excuses for these insanely greedy companies that don't want to hire people to solve a basic problem?
- grepfru_it 7mo agoWhen I left, GH was valued at around $40 billion. Above the $8B they were purchased for. Well below $1T that is claimed
- shimman 7mo agoEven if they were valued around $100million they would still have more enough resources to solve this problem. Stop excusing companies that hate hiring people and are so greedy they would rather punt this problem to the commons fucking over an entire community that literally enabled them to exist. Come on here, even Meta hires people in Kenya to look at CP and snuff films to label this stuff. Meta! They literally profited off of a genocide and they still know how to do this. Excuse after excuse for these greedy companies.
- DonHopkins 7mo agoHow small do you think Microsoft is??!
- cortesoft 7mo agoGitHub is not all of Microsoft.
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- adrianmsmith 7mo agoGH literally say in a parent comment: > we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts
- eli 7mo agoI'm confused. How do you know what account scraped your email address from github in order to send you an email? Or do you mean going after the accounts of companies that make use of a likely scraped email address? That's not a bad idea either, but it has risks and isn't the same thing.
- tedivm 7mo agoHalf the time they literally say it in the email. I just looked in my spam folder and just a few hours ago got an email titled "Your profile: Github", that started with: > I came across your profile on GitHub. Given you're based in the US, I thought it might be relevant to reach out. > > Profile: https://github.com/tedivm https://github.com/tedivm They aren't doing anything to hide it.
- grepfru_it 7mo agoBut hold on. They could have git cloned your repo, used or otherwise analyzed your code which follows TOS then used the local git repo to pull your email address. How is GitHub responsible here?
- influx 7mo agoThey could have, but it seems unlikely they targeted one or two repos and probably cloned thousands or more.
- eli 7mo agoThat identifies the company that sent the email not the github account that scraped it