Have you seen the viral GoFundMe campaign floating around that vows to buy and publish the web histories of every politician and exec who is helping internet providers sell your data? Yeah, don’t give that dude your money.
I’m all for wacky clever revenge plots, but this one just looks like a straight up scam. Whether self-proclaimed privacy activist Adam McElhaney means well or not (and he may), this campaign just doesn’t make a lot of sense. And yet it’s already made over $110,000!
I found that page, read through it, thought, “How is this guy going to delivery?” Then I thought, “I wish I had thought of this first, he made a ton of money and GoFundMe doesn’t require him to deliver on anything.”
Amazing work to this guy. He’s made over 200 grand now – https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory