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by huhtenberg 117 days ago
WhatsApp infamously did just that.

It vacuumed the contacts and spammed them with "Join me on WhatsApp". One of the reasons for their initial exponential growth.

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Almost everything coming out of Silicon Valley has an unethical past(present?) if you look at it a bit more closely.
Venmo did this too