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Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e... by grepfru_it on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:54AM (#47176990)
But hold on.

They could have git cloned your repo, used or otherwise analyzed your code which follows TOS then used the local git repo to pull your email address.

How is GitHub responsible here?

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Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e... by influx on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:22PM (#47182996)
They could have, but it seems unlikely they targeted one or two repos and probably cloned thousands or more.
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