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Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by notwhereyouare »

trollbridge wrote: post #31
IgorPartola wrote: post #14

Back in 2011 or so the Yellow Pages still delivered physical phone books to ever address in the state where we were. My city literally sent out an extra off cycle recycling truck the next day to pick them all up. Everyone threw them out. Well my coworkers and I realized that the opt out form just needed an address. We contemplated pulling all known addresses for the entire country and automating submitting them all o…

Around the same time frame, my brother rented some rooms in his house to people who had the occupation of actually delivering those phone books. (This was in a different country, but apparently the Yellow Pages existed everywhere.) The delivery-people got overwhelmed and eventually just resorted to putting the stacks and stacks of phone books into piles and burning them. It took a long time until they got caught beca…

I think dad wanted some extra money one year and he took my brother and I out and delivered 100s of phonebooks in our area.

i think we got a season pass to 6 flags out of it, but i'm not positive

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by pulse-dev »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #44

Could this task be a nice benchmark for computer use models? Would interesting to see the success rate for Claude Cowork or Codex’s equivalent feature.

Good point, could be a solid benchmark. Sites are adversarially built to resist automation and success is verifiable later when records actually disappear, so harder to game than WebArena.

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Post by ctippett »

IgorPartola wrote: post #14

Back in 2011 or so the Yellow Pages still delivered physical phone books to ever address in the state where we were. My city literally sent out an extra off cycle recycling truck the next day to pick them all up. Everyone threw them out. Well my coworkers and I realized that the opt out form just needed an address. We contemplated pulling all known addresses for the entire country and automating submitting them all o…

Similarly I remember being at Australia Post discussing data privacy for a project and I couldn't help but make the wisecrack remark "don't y'all routinely distribute millions of individual's personal data every year and just leave the information lying about on people's doorstops for anyone to access?"

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Post by mynameisash »

muyuu wrote: post #57
jeroenhd wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on the CAPTCHA, but there's a reason why Apple, Cloudflare, and Google are shifting towards remote attestation for proof-of-humanity. The reCAPTCHA v3 Enterprise version and MtCaptcha cost a whopping 3x as much ($3 per 1000 solves). Seems like they're the best CAPTCHAs to go for.

Captchas are getting so annoying and puzzling they will soon prove you're unlikely to be human if you pass them.

I think my browsing habits may have changed, as I rarely see captchas. However, just the other day, my son was frustrated by one that he said had taken him fifteen or more tries, and he still hadn't succeeded.

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by michaelcampbell »

dfxm12 wrote: post #54
oofbey wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably built it just for themselves. More the first person in the post title.

They probably wouldn't have shared the GitHub repository with hn if this was the case.

There are "show hn" submissions for things that people just want to show off multiple times a week.

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Post by jorvi »

muyuu wrote: post #57
jeroenhd wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on the CAPTCHA, but there's a reason why Apple, Cloudflare, and Google are shifting towards remote attestation for proof-of-humanity. The reCAPTCHA v3 Enterprise version and MtCaptcha cost a whopping 3x as much ($3 per 1000 solves). Seems like they're the best CAPTCHAs to go for.

Captchas are getting so annoying and puzzling they will soon prove you're unlikely to be human if you pass them.

Its only Google's ReCaptcha that sucks, with its eternal gaslighting.

"Select stairs": okay, does that mean the railing too? And probably some percentage of people clicked rails, so now I have meta it and guess if that percentage is enough to throw off my guess.

"Select motorbike": okay, but you're showing me a bicycle. I'll click "skip". FAIL. TRY AGAIN. Sighs.. okay, I guess the average person is so dim-witted they will misidentify a bicycle for a motorbike.

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by 3RTB297 »

Having done data broker opt-outs manually using the Big Ass Data Broker Opt Out List (https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...), very little of the process can be automated. Intentionally.

A few of these services ask you to go find your record among their lists first, so you can confirm which record you want removed using the URL of the record. So either it has to guess on that, or simply isn't doing it.

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