@amrith I purchase the lists from conferences, meetups, web services and other profit-driven data collectors willing to sell them.
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@amrith@bitfalls So, uh, you have an online list of emails that have been sold without the owners' permission, while you're actually purchasing emails without peoples' permission yourself? :D
And you're even buying said emails if I people end up on the list. You presumably doesn't use the emails for anything, but I think the service is contradictory in a way.
EDIT: Thanks for the elaboration below, makes sense!
@amrith@martinsanton I buy them because I'm sick of spam and because I want to out the data brokers and original sellers and put a stop to spam. I'm not sure what I can say about the service being contradictory, but given that there's not even analytics code on the page and the app itself is open source (just polishing some stuff up, will announce and add links in the coming few days), I think most people will find less of an issue with this app than with most email collecting apps. We'll see.
@languages_ai I purchase the lists from conferences, meetups, web services and other profit-driven data collectors willing to sell them. I get offered this data because I run bitfalls.com and coinvendor.io, I imagine a lot of other more popular online portals do too and that's how you end up on newsletters you had no idea you were a part of
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