• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I agree it’s shitty, but its so that they can tell you later if your email does the leaked!

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      9 months ago

      Not really in this case. It’s for the free one-time scan, I wasn’t signing up for the service.

      I like the idea of this sort of thing, but it always ultimately comes down to placing some kind of trust in the data brokers. This seems foolish to me because they clearly have no interest whatsoever in complying with this sort of thing unless they are forced to.

      Hell, if I were a proper scumbag I’d make harvesting the information of people who requested it taken down my business. Exclusive demographic, low cost business model ;-)

      Hopefully Mozella have thought of this and mix a bunch of trash data with their searches and requests… or some other scheme to minimize the impact of “bad actors” in the data harvesting industry.