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Re:Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse by xnx on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:39PM (#42445581)
Love this idea. It's crazy that every company knows more about my online activity than I know about it myself.

Definitely worried that running the extractors would get my accounts banned for violating policies against automated requests.

Re:Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse by slalani304 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:15PM (#42446876)
This hasn't happened for any of my accounts and I've been working on this for the last few months.
Re:Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse by imglorp on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:52PM (#42447702)
Even so, would a rate limit be wise?
Re:Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse by j45 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @10:50PM (#42447975)
No need to worry - it's your data.

Large organizations do a takeout/checkout process that sends you a notification when the data is ready for manual exports.