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Article History

Received: 28 June 2024

Accepted: 4 December 2024

First Online: 21 December 2024

Declarations

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: We followed the guidelines of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity regarding responsible and ethical research and obtained ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of the Tampere Region (statement 89/2021). The interviewees signed the consent forms under a chosen pseudonym. The conversations on the Torilauta online forum in the Tor network were anonymous. Consequently, it was not possible to request separate research consent from the untraceable individuals who participated in those public discussions. The impact assessment documents have addressed this issue [see ].

: Both the interviewed individuals and the parent organisations of the HR service providers received information on the study and granted permission to use the data in publications. They also agreed that the authors would respect their anonymity by removing participant pseudonyms and proper nouns from the analysed data excerpts. Regarding the individual conversation participants in the Tor network, see the ‘Ethics approval and consent to participate’ section. The Torilauta site administration collected and provided the data for research purposes and they were informed that it would be used in publications.

: The authors declare no competing interests.