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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by cafard on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:35PM (#28753105)
They did have one's address in the phone book. Now, you had to have a decent city map, and some sense of the city numbering scheme to know where that address was.
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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by jobigoud on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:53AM (#28756567)
Most city maps I used would have a street index and a grid coordinate system overlaid on the map so you would only search within a square like "D5" for example.
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