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"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!" What reason is there to trust that the more shady brokers aren't just updating your record with IP address + 'sent an opt-out request' flag, making the data even more valuable?
"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!" What reason is there to trust that the more shady brokers aren't just updating your record with IP address + 'sent an opt-out request' flag, making the data even more valuable?
"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!" What reason is there to trust that the more shady brokers aren't just updating your record with IP address + 'sent an opt-out request' flag, making the data even more valuable?
"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!" What reason is there to trust that the more shady brokers aren't just updating your record with IP address + 'sent an opt-out request' flag, making the data even more valuable?
I won't miss Twitter one bit.
Out of curiosity I tried a few of the services on this list. They all follow the same textbook dark pattern, with fake progress bars, making the process of looking up someone artificially take several minutes, then only at the end do they ask for your email and payment information.
The truly free ones tend to have a tab to search by just a phone number, and you'll never get a fake loading bar.
At one point they accurately listed every address I've ever lived at, relations, phone numbers, email addresses, and even some usernames I can only assume were linked to me as part of some database breach. A few years ago I went through and "opted out" of a bunch of these services for myself and a few of my family members. Looks like I'm still unlisted/removed 2-3 years later.
That sounds like puffery. Has anyone ever suffered a documented consequence along those lines?
I would pay three figures for someone to do this for me, for all these brokers. (I'm well aware that outsourcing the job carries its own risks... nonetheless there's an opportunity here.)
"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!" What reason is there to trust that the more shady brokers aren't just updating your record with IP address + 'sent an opt-out request' flag, making the data even more valuable?
I don't see the harm in pasting in the info I can see they already have, in a request to remove it.
Data Broker Opt-Out List - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24388803 - Sept 2020 (162 comments)