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
#2Presumably, 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 technology such as “cookies”.
This is a disconcerting use of "secret sauce," particularly since email addresses have the same weight nowadays as usernames.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#3Presumably, 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.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#4Presumably, 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…
Their secret sauce is a third party API.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#5Presumably, 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…
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.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#6I suppose it's a good thing nothing came up when I entered my email?
I would be turned off from a website or service that prepopulated a lot of my information without my consent.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#7I wonder if a new way to do signups would be just an emailto: link that you click and send. From there it automatically logs you in and sends you a password.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#8$20 for 2000 requests a month? HAHAHAHAHA no.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#9On the one hand, yes, I can see how this could improve sign-up rates for those who are concerned about those things, and I count myself among that number from time to time.
On the other hand… yeah, creepy as hell.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#10um chrome (and presumably other browsers) already remember all of my information and autofill it...