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lacewingtoday at 2:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

No, the system is rigged in a different way. There is an actual data broker industry that's mostly hidden from view; and then there are hundreds upon hundreds of ephemeral "look up your neighbor" websites that you know about and end up submitting opt outs to, only for half of these websites to disappear and a new crop to show up in a year or two.


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vablingstoday at 2:25 PM

Weird how with these kinds of discussions new accounts always show up with a wealth of information. Very astroturfed topic readers beware

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hmokiguesstoday at 2:31 PM

can you share your sources? I'm curious about this