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Re:Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money... by JoshTriplett on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:41PM (#36516045)
And the sites that list every possible phone number in a given area code, just so that they'll be a search hit for someone searching for a phone number. Zero value provided there.
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Re:Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money... by Szpadel on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:47PM (#36523045)
those are usually for "is this a spam" vote, so I would argue that there is some value there
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Re:Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money... by JoshTriplett on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:49PM (#36524026)
I'm not talking about the ones that provide a user-contributable database of "what business owns this number, is it spam"; those are great.

I'm talking about sites that just list all possible phone numbers in a range, for SEO purposes, with no useful information about each number, and then try to sell you access to their invasive databases of personal information.

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