Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e...
by shawmakesmagic on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:04PM
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FYI I get about 5 of these a week. It is pervasive. If someone wants to scrape my email that's one thing, but the number of recruiters who are like "I saw your repo <some ancient repo of mine> and I think you'd be a great fit for our new position in AI agents..." so they are both scraping my e-mail and all the metadata to personalize their pitch to me (poorly).
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