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Half 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 star
by tedivm 7mo ago
Half 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