Now this is a good use of AI
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
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Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#22Sweet, I've been wondering why it doesn't doesn't exist as an open source solution.
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#24> 4. Solves CAPTCHAs via CapSolver (AI-powered, ~$0.001/solve) Right, so my suspicion was correct: I'm the only one being inconvenienced by the same old captchas.
Makes it tempting to buy paid captcha solving just to enjoy life more
Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#25I got tired of spammers having my information, so I built a tool that submits an up-to-date copy of my information to over 500 websites. Surely this will help. Jokes aside, I unironically suspect the purpose of many opt-out forms is merely to record the up-to-date information.
Agreed. Any time I click an “Unsubscribe” link in an email, that takes me to a site where I have to provide my email or indeed, do anything more than click “confirm,” I leave. I assume it either resets some kind of consent trigger or sells my data to a new third-party vendor. The assumption of bad faith is now baked into my interaction with almost every corporate entity.
I think they’re doing it because of your exact behavior: one-click unsubscribe links are easy to do even if you’re on mobile and aren’t giving the process your full attention. Making you enter your email is a barrier.
They already know your email, I don’t see why getting it again would sell it to a new vendor. Clicking an unsubscribe link already verifies you are a real person.
Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#26I got tired spam calls and text, so I built a script that automates the opt-out process across 500+ data brokers on a monthly schedule. Where I need help: The heuristic approach misses a lot. Many of the generic sites have unique flows the four generic strategies don't catch. I'm looking for people who want to: - Verify which generic sites are actually succeeding vs. silently failing - Add explicit broker definitions…
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Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#27I tried this (as a Canadian):
1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo
2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't use
3. I got a lot of 404s anyway
4. Many sites require manual intervention to work
Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Any time I click an “Unsubscribe” link in an email, that takes me to a site where I have to provide my email or indeed, do anything more than click “confirm,” I leave. I assume it either resets some kind of consent trigger or sells my data to a new third-party vendor. The assumption of bad faith is now baked into my interaction with almost every corporate entity.
Sometimes the people who set up the email service just forget or don't bother to add the receivers email to the URL parameter when you click unsubscribe, so it'll ask for your email again which is always an annoying step.
That’s their mistake, and any other email I receive from them will be flagged as spam and sent to the junk folder.
I’m not in the business of fixing their mistakes for free.
I will click the unsubscribe link and that’s it.
Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Any time I click an “Unsubscribe” link in an email, that takes me to a site where I have to provide my email or indeed, do anything more than click “confirm,” I leave. I assume it either resets some kind of consent trigger or sells my data to a new third-party vendor. The assumption of bad faith is now baked into my interaction with almost every corporate entity.
Sometimes the people who set up the email service just forget or don't bother to add the receivers email to the URL parameter when you click unsubscribe, so it'll ask for your email again which is always an annoying step.
I refuse to believe that “someone just forgot” to implement a user-friendly feature whose omission coincidentally benefits their company. It is not a coincidence, and it was not done unintentionally. The same way that it is not a coincidence that the “unsubscribe” link is always in six-point font the same color as the rest of the email footer. Code does not happen in a vacuum. Code does not get pushed to production without vetting and approval. As I say, the assumption of bad faith is baked in.
Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
#30you ever look on a title and just immediately know that its going on the frontpage + staying there
There are times where I immediately guess it, the recent mitchell post of AI psychosis was something that I recognized (which is now at 2k upvotes)
But there are other times where I am wrong too and I even comment on threads with less upvotes because the topic is so interesting yet my comment just ends up being isolated.
It's really more like a 50/50.
Even the one post of mine which had reached the front page of Hackernews was something that I absolutely knew could reach front page but then there weren't much responses for a few days but then after a few days, I saw that it was re-uploaded (I think that Hn selects a few submissions which are interesting, I forgot how that mechanism worked) and then I reached the front page of Hackernews ;)
Either way, I think people should just make what they feel is interesting but I remember reading some article once which said a few things which this article follows:
1. I built XYZ... gets more frontpage than we built XYZ...
2. having (Open source) in the title increases the chances too
This article has both of them so its definitely interesting to see it on front page, either way its an really interesting project :-D