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

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It's Clearbit - and btw way more data than this is available on you based on an email address. Scary in a lot of ways for sure.

How is it that clearbit charges $99/2500 reqs, while magic is charging 1/5th of that?

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

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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

It sends you a confirmation email. Inside this email is a link to your profile. You can either add information (linkedin, facebook, angellist, etc.) or delete your profile.

I deleted my profile.

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

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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.

Probably not. That clearbit form tells me that they don't have my email address, but my information was pre-populated into Svbtle when I used that same address.

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

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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/

That link doesn't seem to provide opt-out, it just provides a way to request the deletion of specific records. But you have to find the page for the record before you can request it to be deleted.

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

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Or it might be Pipl. Opt out for Pipl is here: https://pipl.com/directory/remove/

That link doesn't seem to provide opt-out, it just provides a way to request the deletion of specific records. But you have to find the page for the record before you can request it to be deleted.

Yeah, it sucks that they don't make it easier.

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

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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.

Probably not. That clearbit form tells me that they don't have my email address, but my information was pre-populated into Svbtle when I used that same address.

I got the same thing the first time, but I did it again and it sent me an email to claim my account. Maybe their site got overwhelmed by HN requests? Not sure what happened.

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

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

It sends you a confirmation email. Inside this email is a link to your profile. You can either add information (linkedin, facebook, angellist, etc.) or delete your profile. I deleted my profile.

the "link to my profile" is just a link to the same submission form for "claiming" my profile.

I filled that out, and got another link to the same place.

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