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Can you share a sample report that your site can generate? I am on mobile and can only see one animation. One product that I could see myself paying for is an app that poisons data brokers' profiles of me, but this, I am guessing, would be pretty hard to do.
Pretty sure a free service to do this was posted here a few months ago. I used it to get a lot of stuff removed, was very effective.
The top comment in another data privacy Show HN shared recently illustrates the gap our tool fills: "Does it take into account whether or not a given data broker currently has my data? Since the deletion requests contain my personal info (for some, a fair amount of it), I'd rather not have that sent to 500 brokers if only 10 or 20 of them actually have me in their database." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27146828)
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So, your explanation basically confirms that right now your dashboard shows fake results. You call these results “autogenerated profile link at [data broker site] for [name at city, state].” Instead of a link which “you can click through to view your profile” as advertised on your site, many of those links lead to 404 or some random page on a data broker site because your system has found nothing. In case of a bogus…
You have a brand new account with no comment history other than this post, yet you’ve taken the time to host screen shots and write multiple disparaging comments with baseless accusations to this post. It sounds like you’re either having a difficult time understanding how our product works, or your motivations are insincere. If your concerns are sincere, please feel free to create a ticket in our help desk and we wou…
Yes, I have a difficult time understanding why your service finds 168 “links” on data broker sites for a bogus name search. If your service performs a real time scan of data broker sites, it should find 0 profiles when it searches for a bogus name. Please answer a simple question why this is not the case.
Some proofs once again: https://postimg.cc/rD93R2TG (Search results for non-existing name and city on data brokers sites) https://postimg.cc/BXpdLb2s (Non-existing profile on addresses.com Optery dashboard report links to)
It doesn’t matter when I created my HN account and how many comments I have. What matters is you wrote blatant lies on your site: “Our dashboard provides dynamically generated custom deep links you can click through to view your profile”. Even if some links are real, the majority are not. Sad.
I requested that they turn on 2FA, since they themselves will become an attack target by requesting so much PII That said, my experience with trying to use any opt-out service (automated or otherwise) is filled with a lot of "Oops, server error, try again later" responses at the end of filling out a ton of forms about oneself, so I wonder if Optery has some secret sauce, is persistent in the face of server errors, or…
Yes - Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is in development – this is almost ready and will be released soon. No server errors have been reported like what you’ve experienced at other services. A few people received an error trying to log in without completing the second step in the signup process, but we resolved this immediately and now prevent people from logging in without completing the two-step registration. Rega…
https://help.optery.com/en/article/how-to-add-multi-factor-a...