Post #497610

2026-03-03 00:25 UTC

Further reading: arstechnica.com/…/its-not-worth-paying-to-be-remo… Tldr: They aren’t very effective, and none better than the next. However, they do more than nothing so get the cheap one (EasyOptOuts) Ive been using them for two years. Negligibly cheap, like $20/year. Once a year they send a text email report. “We removed you from these sites… We tried to remove you from these sites… These sites have technical issues preventing removal…” It does work to some extent because when I try to find myself on big people search sites like BeenVerified, I can’t find myself. And I used to be listed. 100% worth thr money imo. You can always subscribe for a year and then cancel.

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@ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 2026-03-03 00:29

And just to plug them a little more, I believe EasyOptOuts is a family-owned business and they have been doing the work long before the over-advertised more-expensive copycats like DeleteMe came on the scene.

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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 00:50

i’ve been thinking of doing this because i think life gave me a warning sign in the form of a facebook account. lol i forgot i had created it sometime in the mid aughts and hadn’t used it since then; but upon a recent login, i got an reminder about an event i planned on attending. i purchased those tickets using my proton email address and the venmo credit card (which was also registered to my proton account) and facebook knew that i was going to that event even though i hadn’t used facebook in (literally) decades.

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