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
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.
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.
DeleteMe has some weird shenanigans relating to the services they support, and they have a key where some services you have to manually request deletion of yourself.
I’d take a look at Optery anyway.
If it sounds too good to be true, then it’s probably not true
Theyve been around for years and it works. Try it out and you’ll see (or won’t see) you public data anymore.
