Tell HN: A lot of DB companies are making cold calls

1 pointmarkus_zhang1 comment

I don't know why, but I have been receiving a lot (3+) calls from different DB companies (think DuckDB and such although they never called me) to advertise their products.

I believe either LinkedIn or something else is selling my data. God damn it, I don't mind you selling my data because everyone does that anyway, but I want a cut of it!

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My guess it's LinkedIn scrapping.

A lot of companies do that, a lot of their CEOs have accounts here as well. Its shamefull as they just figure out what the company uses for their email format and just spam that, plus yourname.surname at gmail.com and so on...

It happens to me very often on every company I am at, even days after LinkedIn status change.

Saddest part is that my worst offenders were very cool tech companies I found here and considered as suppliers, but their amateur privacy attitude is unacceptable in my field.

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