Comment on GitHub spammers.

• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  but that’s how git works… if you have public commits anyone can get that email, it’s not github leaking it, it’s you

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  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never said GitHub was leaking me? I said someone who has a GitHub repo is scraping GitHub emails and spamming. Seems like the kind of ToS violation GitHub would want to know about.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think it violates ToS, it’s public data. One can even search for emails directly like this and get millions of matches

      github.com/search?q=%2F.*%40gmail.com%2F&type=com…

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      • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hmm, perhaps. Not sure of this would cover that:

        You may not use the API to download data or Content from GitHub for spamming purposes

        docs.github.com/en/…/github-terms-of-service

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