Based on our record, Removaly seems to be a lot more popular than PrivacyBot. While we know about 41 links to Removaly, we've tracked only 4 mentions of PrivacyBot. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Unfortunately, apparently there's closer to 450ish total (as someone mentioned below as well). Not sure how up to date the list is, but a list of them is at: https://privacybot.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago
That's awesome! And yeah it's super time-consuming, ugh. Are you associated with https://privacybot.io/ at all? That's the longest one I've found so far which is in a concise list form. Source: almost 2 years ago
That is originally from a WashPo article that also mentions a free tool called Privacy Bot It claims to operate entirely locally and sends deletion requests on the user's behalf. Source: over 2 years ago
Yes, check out https://privacybot.io It's a graduate student project from the University of California, Berkeley. It's open source project and you execute its code from your own computer so you can have confidence in it keeping your data private. It was also written up in Consumer Reports[1]. 1. https://digital-lab.consumerreports.org/2021/05/12/new-open-source-project-automates-data-deletion-requests-by-email/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Use a site like Removaly. They scan every day to ensure instances of personal information stay off, even if and when they do come back. No other service scans daily (most are monthly or quarterly). Source: over 1 year ago
Once your address is out there it's pretty difficult to get it down. That said, you can use a service like Removaly (the one I created with a fellow redditor) to make sure people search sites aren't posting your address for anyone to easily find from a simple Google search. Source: over 1 year ago
I founded Removaly with a fellow redditor and would be happy to give you a discount & help in any other way I can 👍. Source: over 1 year ago
You're better off going with a comparatively priced service that is actually US-based and doesn't cater to data brokers by playing both sides of the field. I co-own one such service, Removaly. Happy to answer any questions you may have about data removal in general. Source: over 1 year ago
The sites that sell it all offer an opt out process though. There are services like Removaly (that I created) that will find / remove your information from these sites. Source: over 1 year ago
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