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This kind of thing feels better left to trusted 1st parties, oneself. Link to a list of data broker opt out methods: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...
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You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious) to both sides of a partisan divide.
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I don't understand the logic. They're more private for admitting that they don't respect your privacy?
Microsoft and Google don't even try to hide the fact they will siphon your data, whether you like it or not. You can turn off some of the egregious siphoning, but that's about it. Mozilla meanwhile claims to be the champion of digital privacy, marketing Firefox as the private browser of choice along with a host of ostensibly privacy products such as VPN, all the while also siphoning data. Turning it all off requires…
Oh come on, Baker was around since the Netscape days. You just don't like her cause she was a Suit, and that's fine. But except for a bunch of engineers Netscape had a bunch of Suits. It's not some conspiracy that a Suit is still running things.
I can’t give specifics, I know someone who had to deal with “delete me” requests from these “privacy” companies. The privacy company would literally take your personal info (name, email), and _email it to every company they could think of_ asking the company to delete your account _even if you didn’t have one_.
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
It’s racketeering
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
Related, proofpoint is notorious for this as well. They will block your mail server without cause, forcing you through their process of delisting. Pay and your problems magically go away. Proofpoint was consistently the only block hit.