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Re:Yes, but what does your startup do? by CPLX on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:48AM (#15619572)
It's not a parody it's a genre. There are many others out there.

Representative example: https://unroll.me/team/

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Re:Yes, but what does your startup do? by gonzoflip on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:26AM (#15619867)
Isn't https://unroll.me the service that was helping people unsubscribe from email lists, while selling their data to uber?

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/stop-using-unroll-me-rig...

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Re:Yes, but what does your startup do? by lightbyte on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:00PM (#15620607)
Strangely I don't see any references on their site to Rakuten, the Japanese corporation that owns them. They also use all of the data they scrape from your emails across their huge catalog of companies.
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Re:Yes, but what does your startup do? by CPLX on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:34AM (#15619951)
Indeed, that's how I discovered that gem in the first place.
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