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by setpatchaddress 1649 days ago
I understand your concern, but you're advocating for a form of security-through-obscurity. Data harvesting of this information is already available to bad actors. If information must be private for security reasons, it should not be in the public court records in the first place.
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Can you provide a citation for the proposition that rate-limiting is a form of security-through-obscurity? That seems like a pretty novel interpretation to me.
It’s already available to anyone. Your first $X / month is free, and after that, it’s like $.10 page. Or, you can drive to the courthouse and snoop for free all day long.

Mostly, this just facilitates more adtech and profile building. I don’t see the benefit.

This information pre-dates the internet age. Lots of sensitive personal info.