PeekYou Engages in Cloaking to Manipulate Search Indexing on Their People Search Site

Hello /r/privacy,

I recently stumbled upon something alarming with PeekYou, a site known for aggregating personal details. They're engaged in a practice known as "cloaking" in their search engine indexing, which I believe is a significant concern for our online privacy.

Cloaking is a deceptive technique where a website shows different content or URLs to search engines than it does to regular users. In PeekYou's case, pages that don't display profiles (which appear at the top of the page and …

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