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by nickhould 3832 days ago
I don't understand what's the value of exposing this autofilled data to the user. Why not just do it on the server-side?
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Going out on a limb here, but what if this really a data training layer on top of Clearbit? Maybe they sell the human validated data back to Clearbit or downstream?
What if the data is wrong? What if it prefilled in a username I didn't want to choose?