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I'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 com
by eli 7mo ago
I'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