I’m Done Feeding the Beast: My Final Breakdown of the Angie/HomeAdvisor Lead Trap

Sick of paying $100 for a shared lead just to find out 4 other guys already called them.

Man, I’m over the whole Angi/HomeAdvisor circus. I’ve been burning money on leads that are basically dead on arrival because the homeowner is already annoyed by the time I get them on the phone.
Lately, I've been messing around with a "Lead Recovery" setup I built myself. Basically, instead of waiting for someone to fill out a contact form (which nobody does anymore), it pings me the LinkedIn and cell phone of the actual person browsing my site in real-time.
I tested it this morning and caught a commercial property manager who was clicking around my "Repairs" page. I called him 5 minutes after he left the site, and he was floored.
I’m trying to see if this is actually a scalable way to run the business or if I just got lucky. Is anyone else using identity tracking like this, or are we all still just slaves to the lead aggregators?