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eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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