IIRC, they’re not a scam, but they also aren’t doing anything you couldn’t do yourself. They’re just sending opt-out requests to data brokers on your behalf.
How time-consuming would doing it yourself be, if anyone here has tried?
I’ve tried, it sucks. Each broker has their own process, often several steps, and often a step is broken (like server errors, can’t get past a captcha, “try again later”, etc). You end up not just having to do the process, but also follow up with many of the ones that are ambiguous or returned server errors or whatnot. I did the top 8 or so brokers and then stopped.
I used to spend one day each year doing all the opt outs and data delete requests i could find. it was going well for me until this year. i averaged about 2-3 spam emails a day, combined across 5 different emails, one was made all the way back in 1997 and two of them were made when gmail first started.
someone got breached this year, i don’t know who, and now i get a lot more.
i also used firefox monitor to check for info on breach websites and darkweb lists, around the same time i started getting more spam, my list of breached info went from ~16 to 600+.
Oh cool a vending machine for just 100 USD? What a steal!
Cheaper than the creditcard test
Well it didn’t ask the CVV?
If I remember from Reject Convience they will spend 6 months to email 2-3 companies to delete your data. (I listen to these to fall asleep to. I may be missing some facts)
In reality they do help superficially, but they very much inflate their numbers on a shiny dashboard, showing you how much they’re helping. All while only hitting a small fraction of databrokers.
I also think, that as a subscription solution to a problem, they could turn into the online version of turbotax any second now. Lobbying for harder self-optouts so that their service stays relevant.
They are a legitimate service. Whether you should use them or not is something you need to decide for yourself.
One of the biggest things they are good for is not giving all of your information away. A lot of these privacy companies simply spam out all of your information and request for the company to delete anything that matches that.
So for instance, if you signed up to a website newsletter with your email, they have your email address. And that’s it. Then comes a “privacy” company that send them your email address, name, home address, etc and asks them if they have any of this data then they need to delete it. That’s asinine and backwards.
DeleteMe doesn’t do this. They are more specific with how they process the data removal requests.
I’m not advocating for them, I don’t use them and probably never will. I have no idea if they are a good company or decent at what they claim to do. I just know they don’t do the spam technique.
Personally, any company that is a mass sponsor of YouTube channels is something I won’t trust myself. But that’s just my weird litmus test.
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Oh its fantastic. How’s the money from the competition?
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“I don’t use them and I dont trust companies that do mass sponsorship of youtube channels”
“tHaTs GuErIlLa MaRkEtInG!!”
“Your Privacy is our Business” is also a Google slogan
Exactly why I suspect it.
heard that stuff like deleteme and incogni sell your data to other places so if you ever stop subscribing so I’d avoid it myself 🤷
you can do it yourself, find a list of brokers and send the same mail/pdf or whatever to them all
