Show HN: Delete yourself from data brokers without a subscription
github.comI signed up for a paid service to get my phone, addresses, and vehicles off the public internet. It didn’t work. So I built remove-your-data, an open-source repo that tells your agent exactly what to do to remove your personal information online.
The problem I see with the tools in general is that to make the request you need to hand over information. Yeah, it might get deleted from their database, but now your info is probably in some intern’s mailbox who’s part of the distribution group.
This is a really interesting approach. It’s frustrating that even paid services can’t reliably get personal data removed. Making the process transparent and giving an agent clear instructions seems like a much more practical approach. Curious to see how well it works across different data brokers.
Open-source data removal workflows are a huge win for privacy transparency. Automating opt-out requests directly without relying on subscription-based brokers gives users real control over their personal data footprints.
Thanks, but I suck at hacker news and this already got deleted. Oh well.
does this work for info/passwords on the 'dark web' as well like incognito? or just for phone, addresses, etc on public internet ? either way, very cool.
With open‑source code, security is better assured. It works well when you deploy and run it on your own.
How does this differ from the paid services? What do you do that they don’t do? What do they do that this does?
Compared to what I use, this does everything a paid service does and more (including the ability to see exactly what happened with verbose logging, custom removal, built in dashboard, etc).
After using a paid service, I don't know of anything they do that this repo doesn't.
but what if the data collected by google search already? i want to know how you clean google search data result.