I’d like to purge some of my info from the interwebs, and was considering trying one of these services. Does anyone have any experience with them?
Discover offers a free service that helps with this if you’re in the US and have a Discover card or bank account.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the data still exists with data brokers but at least it’s become a lot harder to get my addresses from a Google search of my name.
The fact that such services exists drives me up a wall, that thoughtless and careless business like facebook, Amazon and Google have worked so hard to collect/sell people’s data, and now we have to pay third parties to hunt it down and get rid of it.
If it helps, the EU is planning on forcing all services to offer a no tracking and no data collection option… either free, or for a fee, at the service’s discretion.
Can’t wait for cookie popups to start coming with “accept all” and “pay to customize” options 😒
Mozilla offers one now and it should be better I think.
They subcontract it out to a third party, who’s name I’m forgetting, that doesn’t have a great reputation.
Oh I didn’t know that thanks.
Yes, additional thanks! Almost gave them a try.
The only 3rd party I can find connected to this is Have I Been Pwned. Are they not reputable? Or is this not who you’re talking about? Genuinely curious as I was thinking about trying out Mozilla.
Can’t find it now, but I believe I originally read about it in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1alzzep/exclusive_mozilla_names_new_ceo_as_it_pivots_to/
Is this one of the services that you supply absolutely all your personal details to, to keep your personal details private?
The information I’ve had to give them is: name, phone number, date of birth, address.
I believe this needed to match your profile correctly, since there are probably people that share your name.
The services that it’s removing me from know so much more though. My family members, all my past addresses, the people that I lived with at each address.
It’s a bummer that this kind of thing has to exist at all, and you have to give up more personal info, but it’s definitely a net positive for your privacy.
Probably. And that’s why I hesitate to use it.
No experience as i don’t trust the concept. The Internet never forgets, no way they can change that
