thebiglebrewski

Hi HN, I thought I'd let you know that "Ashby HQ", some kind of new recruiting software, has a tool to look up emails via 3rd parties that they will not let engineers opt out of.

After getting a lot of recruiting spam over the years, I am always trying to opt out of it. Usually when there's an uptick, some new service like Ashby that lets people spam engineers has started.

Typically these services let people opt out, but after emailing back and forth with support, it seems Ashby "uses third parties" for this data and will not let engineers stop employers from getting their email, even if they don't want to be contacted.

Just putting this out there for any engineer thinking of working for them or who notices an uptick in recruiter spam that can't be stopped. I find this behavior really sad, personally, an email with no way to unsubscribe.

Please upvote if you support data privacy and the right to be forgotten :).

This is a follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198074 - since then I've learned from their status page that it seems Cloudflare has had an outage since August 2nd of their support services for Business and Pro customers! https://cloudflarestatus.com

Does anyone know what's going on over there and when it will be fixed? I am being asked for updates on issues I can only fix with their help and I have nothing to pass on to my team.

I appreciate anyone who has insight into this chiming in or if anyone has a recommendation on who/how to contact them outside of their support portal I'd really be thankful.