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I don't understand. They say "we find you developers from our database of 4 million devs" but later say that they find them from YOUR github/fb/linkedin/twitter

I don't understand. They say "we find you developers from our database of 4 million devs" but later say that they find them from YOUR github/fb/linkedin/twitter connections? So is this a sort of web scraping tool?

yixizhang 13y ago
yes
X4 13y ago
Time for the damn GitHub to introduce more privacy, instead of putting all you ever do in a PUBLIC activity feed, with no opt out.
- xerophtye 13y ago
  i thought they gave privacy options to paying users, no?
- nfoz 13y ago
  Time to stop using GitHub.
richardburton 13y ago
(I'm working on Sourcing.io.) Apologies for the confusion here--we're going to be adding a much more detailed explanation of what we do to the homepage soon. In the meantime, this blog post gives a broad outline of what we're doing: http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world