#email-spam on Hacker News

2 stories tagged email-spam, newest first.

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

546 points by miki123211 8 months ago | 204 comments

A Tell HN post reporting that YC startup RunAnywhere and Voice.AI scraped GitHub commit data to send unsolicited marketing emails, raising GDPR concerns.

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Screenshot of dbushell.com: Proton spam and the AI consent problem

Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)

525 points by dbushell 9 months ago | 379 comments

David Bushell's blog post criticizing Proton for sending a Lumo AI promotional newsletter he says he opted out of, raising issues of AI consent.

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#email-spam on Hacker News

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

Proton spam and the AI consent problem(dbushell.com)

Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)