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GDPR Troll Shakedown from Mustafa Sisic of Europe Data Protection (snarfed.org)
5 points by pmlnr on Jan 7, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Sending shakedown mails is cheap, especially because it's easy to automate the scanning of websites and assembly of such mails.

If even just 1% of recipients pay him it's a profitable "business" model.

I'd be VERY surprised if he'd ever take anyone to court.




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