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[brador]

> which allows the company to slurp up the contacts list of the third-party e-mail account with which the member signed up, if the member is logged into that e-mail account in the same browser.

Is this a thing? Can any website slurp my contacts if i have hotmail or gmail open in the same browser? How are they doing this?

[nwh → brador]

They can't unless there's a vulnerability in Gmail that they're exploiting, and that wouldn't go down at all well.