Good video on the topic by Reject Convience: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=iX3JT6q3AxA

Article by Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/data-broker-removals/

TDLW/R: Better to do it yourself and stop exposing private info. The service is at best a band-aid solution, at worst actively harming your privacy. Generally it’s snake oil.

For what its worth, I subbed to EasyOptOuts earlier this year, as recommended by PrivacyGuides and Consumer Reports, and have, somewhat anecdotally, noticed a MASSIVE decline in spam/scam calls.

I was getting 1-2 calls a day at peak, and now I haven’t had one in weeks. Could be a fluke, confirmation bias, or other unrelated crackdowns, but for now happy to keep my subscription going for a couple of years to not have to worry about checking back on those brokers constantly.

Hoping the CA Opt Out portal goes live soon as well, since that’ll be a huge win for millions of people.

If it sounds too good to be true, then it’s probably not true

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Companies like it may work, but any company that offers a quick, easy solution is probably bluffing, especially when it comes to the thousands of places data might be stored

Theyve been around for years and it works. Try it out and you’ll see (or won’t see) you public data anymore.

You have to DOXX yourself to let them know what data to remove. Its pointless.