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Is it ethical or legal for companies to scrape GitHub stars for spam purposes?

3 pointsby elbrianalmost 4 years ago
Just got an email from jack.flynn@gatsbyjs.com with some spam and he mentioned that he got my information from the stargazers list of the Gatsby repo.<p>Is this something I should bother reporting to GitHub? I will likely never star another repo again because it&#x27;s been proven to be a good source of spam.

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verdvermalmost 4 years ago
I have started thousands of repos only a handful have ever reached out directly. I get more spam from people finding my repos and trying to sell me something. So I wouldn&#x27;t write off stars yet, though given the GitHub timeline &quot;spam&quot; from staring repos...<p>YMMV
sarcasmatworkalmost 4 years ago
Have you looked thru the TOS?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;github&#x2F;site-policy&#x2F;github-terms-of-service" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;github&#x2F;site-policy&#x2F;github-terms-o...</a>