I use https://joindeleteme.com/ and it seems to work well
Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
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Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#12Bumping
On HN, more comments will de-rank the post to make space for newer less discussed content. This bumping is spam and opposite of what you intended to do.
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold email…
Thanks for the summary. Do you have a list of the 50 or so databases you unsubscribe from? Do you have any metrics around how many such databases exist in total?
There are a lot. A few (this list is unaudited; we did a big dump and as we add a new one we verify that it should be on the list):
Hunter.io
AnyMailFinder
Lusha
Datanyze Insider
Find That Email
Voila Norbert
Hiretual
Find That Lead
Findemails.com
Uplead
Rocketreach
ContactOut
Discoverly
GetEmail
Sellhack
Clearbit Connect
CEO Email
LeadFeeder
Prospect.io
MailTester
Skrapp
apollo.io
Lead Fuze
ZoomInfo
Prophet
Linkedin Sales Navigator
Ringleads DMS Capture
Data.com
NinjaOutreach
Crunchbase
Mattermark
Builtwithin
Detective
Mention
Mailshake
Snov.io
Propeller CRM
Aeroleads
Mail tester
Vainu
Owler
Demodesk
minelead
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#14Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold email…
Do you have plans to expand to CCPA requests as well? Some US companies will loudly and vehemently not care about European laws, but are beholden to California laws.
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#15Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold email…
This is a great idea. Thank you for working on it.
Allow me to suggest a feature for your roadmap that might be particularly helpful to people like myself that take this rather seriously: Support users that are in a habit of creating and using a unique email address per service that they subscribe to. (perhaps this is a bit niche for MVP, I realize)
For instance, I own a domain that I use solely for email. I have a configuration that allows me to type @., after which that email address will automatically route to my main inbox. Therefore, I have probably 100+ email addresses that have been used for various accounts and services like Netflix, Amazon, Foobar Business LLC, etc. It would be great to be able to use your service with my many 'primary keys' rather than just one. Perhaps you plan to support this already, but if not hopefully this comment leads to a discussion/consideration in your team.
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#16In South Africa you could add your contact details to the Direct Marketers' Association's Do Not Call list, but the list was hacked and the contact details sold.
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#17I use https://joindeleteme.com/ and it seems to work well
so absurd. why is it $129/year to remove myself from lists that I didn't consent to be added to in the first place?
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#19Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold email…
Are you in the US? I'm asking this in a non-snarky/good faith way- if you're in the US, and the company is in the US, why would they honor a GPDR request? I understand the EU may have worded GPDR broadly, but sovereignty is still a thing- just because Europe says the law applies globally doesn't mean it really does.
I don't mean this as a criticism- I've been manually deleting myself off of data broker sites for a while- just curious how that works. I see GPDR get invoked a lot here on HN, but I'm not sure people have a firm grasp on how international legal systems work. I mean, as an American I'm not subject to the legal system of Zimbabwe, Myanmar or Saudi Arabia either, even if they pass a law that says I am....
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#20Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)
Might be able to help out with CCPA analogue. Not sure how to email you though. Site goes directly to login page.