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To try to put a stop to his own information being used, [[Cueball]] sets his last name to "If-you-see-this-name-in-an-ad-give-the-product-a-one-star-review-Smith", a name which includes a phrase that would negatively affect any marketer's attempts to advertise an online product.{{Citation needed}} This name would pass though most harvesting software as-is, and may very well end up being used in such ads, unless some very clever software is able to detect sentences as part of names or similar. In fact much spam is stopped by identifying emails through {{w|Honeypot (computing)|Honeypot}} accounts, among other methods. | To try to put a stop to his own information being used, [[Cueball]] sets his last name to "If-you-see-this-name-in-an-ad-give-the-product-a-one-star-review-Smith", a name which includes a phrase that would negatively affect any marketer's attempts to advertise an online product.{{Citation needed}} This name would pass though most harvesting software as-is, and may very well end up being used in such ads, unless some very clever software is able to detect sentences as part of names or similar. In fact much spam is stopped by identifying emails through {{w|Honeypot (computing)|Honeypot}} accounts, among other methods. | ||
β | Hence engineering part of your profile could be a winning strategy to signal to your friends that your information is harvested without your | + | Hence engineering part of your profile could be a winning strategy to signal to your friends that your information is harvested without your expressed knowledge. |
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