You have to DOXX yourself to let them know what data to remove. Its pointless.
Companies like it may work, but any company that offers a quick, easy solution is probably bluffing, especially when it comes to the thousands of places data might be stored
Good video on the topic by Reject Convience: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=iX3JT6q3AxA
Article by Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/data-broker-removals/
TDLW/R: Better to do it yourself and stop exposing private info. The service is at best a band-aid solution, at worst actively harming your privacy. Generally it’s snake oil.
DeleteMe has some weird shenanigans relating to the services they support, and they have a key where some services you have to manually request deletion of yourself.
I’d take a look at Optery anyway.
If it sounds too good to be true, then it’s probably not true
For what its worth, I subbed to EasyOptOuts earlier this year, as recommended by PrivacyGuides and Consumer Reports, and have, somewhat anecdotally, noticed a MASSIVE decline in spam/scam calls.
I was getting 1-2 calls a day at peak, and now I haven’t had one in weeks. Could be a fluke, confirmation bias, or other unrelated crackdowns, but for now happy to keep my subscription going for a couple of years to not have to worry about checking back on those brokers constantly.
Hoping the CA Opt Out portal goes live soon as well, since that’ll be a huge win for millions of people.
Theyve been around for years and it works. Try it out and you’ll see (or won’t see) you public data anymore.
