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Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Post by meatcar »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #14
tallerholler wrote: post #10

um chrome (and presumably other browsers) already remember all of my information and autofill it...

Except it works terribly. I hate how I only get those prompts when the field matches whatever fields Chrome thinks it should, yet many companies don't use these field ID's, so Chrome sits there stupidly. I would love the ability to teach Chrome that this is a form and yes these are valid fields. Maybe somehow submit it to Google and have them update whatever regex they use. I feel like it fails about 50% of the time.

Im pretty sure theres a set of standard attributes you can set on fields to make them autocompletable. I use this as a reference: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Autocomplete_Types

Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Post by notlisted »

prezjordan wrote: post #3
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Presumably, they have some preexisting database that maps email addresses to personal information. Their Privacy page, however, is not transparent how exactly they got this data: > Broadly speaking, we collect information in three ways: (1) when you provide it directly to us, (2) when we obtain information about you or your company through trusted third parties or indexing systems, and (3) passively through technolog…

Maybe clearbit? Which you can opt out of here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim I did this a few weeks ago and magic signup does not work for my email address.

If you don't want to provide clearbit with additional information (e.g. location), it might be useful to remove yourself with this link via a VPN or hide.me

Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Post by gboudrias »

listic wrote: post #18
Raphmedia wrote: post #17

It's pretty creepy that I can randomly enter email adresses and get first and last names... !

ok, how does that work: did all those people sign up with Magic?

Based on other comments, the info is bought off Clearbit. You can opt out here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim

Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Post by acomjean »

I have a fairly unique last name, which is in my email address.

So far two dead relatives that never really used the internet have been "marketing matched" to my email address. So I get spam for my deceased grandmother and uncle. Its a little jarring. I'm not sure what kind of matching they do but clearly its not working.

Plus isn't the point of using a service being able to decide to match it with twitter, Facebook or just not link to those things.

Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Post by CaptSpify »

gboudrias wrote: post #25
listic wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok, how does that work: did all those people sign up with Magic?

Based on other comments, the info is bought off Clearbit. You can opt out here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim

That just kept re-directing me to enter my email. I was never able to opt-out

Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address

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Post by nostromo »

prezjordan wrote: post #3
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Presumably, they have some preexisting database that maps email addresses to personal information. Their Privacy page, however, is not transparent how exactly they got this data: > Broadly speaking, we collect information in three ways: (1) when you provide it directly to us, (2) when we obtain information about you or your company through trusted third parties or indexing systems, and (3) passively through technolog…

Maybe clearbit? Which you can opt out of here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim I did this a few weeks ago and magic signup does not work for my email address.

Or it might be Pipl.

Opt out for Pipl is here: https://pipl.com/directory/remove/

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