It's amazing, really, that someone didn't think to aggregate "public personal" data like this before. Flock sort of does it, but it's an entire web browser, and it only uses your own accounts' buddy lists in a very unsneaky way.
If you're like Matthew and want zero visibility on your accounts, you're going to have to do some low-tech account manipulation, like using custom addresses for each service so that no two accounts share the same address.
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I think this is a pawnage site.. you put in your email and YOU ARE NOW LINKED!
I put in my "garbage" email that I use for "registrations"... and it should get many hits.. it comes back as nothing.. This looks like a scam.. and with the reputation of Consumerist behind it, it is working! THANKS CONSUMERIST!
look up the site that requires a registration, it gives you an email address. much easier than creating a ton of them yourself.
and any site thats asking for your email and password is going to hack your address book. there's no other reason to ask for it. they don't need your email password to find out if your email is linked to another site.
]]>Jesus christ, I don't trust ANYONE enough to use the same combination of username and password on any two IMPORTANT accounts, or anything where the login information on one site would give enough information to indirectly reveal another, why would I just HAND these bozos login information for an account I actually use (and which will give them access to password retrieval emails from other sites)? And the way I read that, it has to be one that I actually use.
Their concept seems to require more trust than anyone should be willing to give.
]]>Bonus: It uses OpenID, so you don't have to make a separate login there.
]]>For instance, I write porn, and am eventually going to take a stab at fetish photography.
However, both of those things are stuff that HR departments probably would use to exclude me from the pool of hundreds/thousands of applicants in order to whittle it down to an interviewable number of people.
Is it okay in that case to keep a hidden identity? I'm really curious what other opinions are, because that's why *I* try to separate myself.
]]>also, this is awesome. thanks for an interesting monday, spokeo!
]]>@mgy: i set up a gmail account for my kid and she has a relatively popular name. i get emails from people of the same name. this is a sucky gmail glitch.
]]>I let Spokeo search my e-mail address book (exported from Mozilla as a CSV file), and it appears that most active person in my social network is... me. And most of that was my Twitter feed and my Amazon wishlist.
For my friends, it mostly found wishlists and Flickr feeds. Come on, if I wanted to look at baby pictures, I'd talk to these people in person more often. Find me some good dirt, Spokeo!
]]>Plus that site just creeps me out.
]]>Got privacy problems much?
]]>The email also advised me to change the email address or privacy settings I didn't want turning up in my listings - the only problem is that it was two weeks ago, and having just checked Spokeo again, it doesn't appear to remove old listings, at least not within that timeframe. All the accounts I've changed the addresses on are still showing up.
]]>@RumorsDaily: I second RumorsDaily's word for the Consumerist killing a website.
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]]>Just about when I thought I got everything out of Gmail, I discovered my top favorite feature. We have published over 30 tools in Gmail RoundUp 1 and almost 80 tools and tips in Gmail RoundUp 2 but never mentioned anything similar to this one. Tribute for this one goes to my 'I am not into computers' type girlfriend.
Let's say that your email address is 'GeorgeBush@gmail.com', basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
* GeorgeBush@gmail.com
* G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
* Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com
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* GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com
* GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
* G.eorgeBush@googlemail.com
* Ge.orgeBush@googlemail.com
…
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* GeorgeBus.h@googlemail.com
And that's not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like 'G.e.o.r.g.e.B.u.s.h@gmail.com' and you'll still get it on 'GeorgeBush@gmail.com'
Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using '+' sign. That is to say 'GeorgeBush+anythingyouwant@gmail.com' can be used as your email address, as well.
Ok I got it. Now what ?
1. One email for every purpose
Instead of using different email addresses for various purposes (work, school, friends, etc.) you can use different variations of your Gmail and filter incoming mails by 'sent to' address. For instance, all incoming mail sent to 'Name.Surname@gmail.com' can be put to folder 'work', messages sent to 'NameSurname@gmail.com' can be put to 'friends', 'N.ameSurname@gmail.com' can be used for newsletters, and so on.
2. Track/Block spammers
When signing up for some website, say thatwebsite.com, you can add thatwebsite to your Gmail user ID (eg. GeorgeBush+thatwebsite@gmail.com). This way you can block your subscription whenever you want and even identify those websites that distribute your email address to spammers.
]]>Gosh.
]]>@Bladefist-안녕: Gotta come up with a flashier name for it. Slashdotted is already taken.
]]>Looks like The Consumerist is too popular for IdentiFight. It must be overwhelmed because it is DOG slow right now.
]]>I clearly need the reverse of this tool to find out where I'm NOT listed!
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