https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357205

Hey, I found your GitHub profile and thought you might find this useful.

I've been building Omniget, a desktop downloader that works with YouTube, Udemy, Hotmart and 1000+ other sites. It's open source and built with Rust and Tauri.

The part I'm most proud of: you don't even need to open the app. Just press a hotkey and it grabs whatever video you're watching.

I've been working on this for a while now, even got an artist to design a mascot. I'm shaping the app based on feedback from people who actually use it, so if you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/tonhowtf/omniget

Thanks for your time!

Tonho

You mention GDPR, which also "applies" to me, though I wonder if what they're doing is actually illegal. I mean, after all, I'm putting my email on GitHub precisely to give people a way to contact me.

Of course, I do that naïvely, assuming good faith, not expecting _companies_ to use it to spam me. So definitely what they're doing is, at the very least, in poor taste.

There are likely marketing email datasets floating around the internet that contain email addresses scraped from commit metadata.

I use a catchall with a specific Git client (not GitHub) email address, and found spam and phishing emails being sent there quite a few times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332418 (11 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660624 (7 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855152 (5 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30900237 (4 years ago)

Seems it’s a reoccurring issue

Every day, I get deluged with hundreds of spam and scam emails, often because some knucklehead entered my email in a form (either accidentally, or as a throwaway red herring).