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?

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    23·
    9 months ago

    Is this one of the services that you supply absolutely all your personal details to, to keep your personal details private?

    • Matt/D@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.

  • megopie@beehaw.org
    6·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      6·
      9 months ago

      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 😒

  • tlf@feddit.de
    4·
    9 months ago

    No experience as i don’t trust the concept. The Internet never forgets, no way they can change that