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by kettleballroll 1505 days ago
I've done the same, but apparently no one ever sells my email. Did your effort ever pay off?
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Yes, various times. Mostly LinkedIn and a few other services that vanished but seemingly sold their userdata. And 2 or 3 times I've got spam before the company announced that they got hacked.
Paid off for me. Very satisfying busting a company selling my address and bringing to their privacy officer's attention as to why I'll never be a customer of theirs again.
I've been doing this for years and have had maybe 4 addresses compromised out of a couple hundred.
same here. I was expecting a lot more re-selling of my email adress to be honest.