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Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.c

Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)

georgespencer 6y ago
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold emails from people I don’t want to hear from. Recruiters, outsource software teams, boutique investment banks I’ve never heard of… it’s a constant source of mild low-level frustration. I don’t have the time to unsubscribe from them all, and archiving is work I don’t want to do. (They also tend to not honour unsubscribe requests…) They call it “prospecting”, I call it “spam”. After GDPR kicked in, I started replying to them with a quick keyboard macro. If I type in ‘gdprfob’, my email client inserts a properly structured GDPR subject access and deletion request. As part of the subject access request, I ask where they got my email in the first place, and what consents they sought. More than 50% of all the cold emails I get use some sort of prospecting database, and none of them — neither the marketers nor the prospecting databases themselves — ever obtained an opt-in. Of course there’s no obligation for them to obtain my permission, as their replies always point out, but that doesn’t really excuse either the discourtesy, or the fact that “this thing we do isn’t illegal” is as unedifying as justifying bigotry with "freedom of speech derrrr!" So we’re cutting them off at the source. We’d love to help people stop these low integrity services from buying and selling their contact details. At the very least it’ll get you out of their system, but maybe if enough people do it, they’ll do the kind, courteous thing and switch to an opt-in service which obtains consent to list your contact details for anyone to see. How it works: give us your email address. Once you’ve verified that you control the account, we manually fill out the forms and send GDPR deletion requests where filling in the forms is not possible. At the end, we’ll send you a receipt which you can use to take up your case with the ICO in case one of the deletion requests is not honoured. We hash your email address after the final receipt is sent so that we can double check you aren’t using us to spam the spammers, but we have no access to your data and our logs are scrubbed clean. We won’t be selling your info like unroll.me did, and we’ve made sure that we can’t ever do it just in case.
- aigoochamna 6y ago
  Thanks for the summary. Do you have a list of the 50 or so databases you unsubscribe from? Do you have any metrics around how many such databases exist in total?
  - georgespencer 6y ago
    There are a lot. A few (this list is unaudited; we did a big dump and as we add a new one we verify that it should be on the list): Hunter.io AnyMailFinder Lusha Datanyze Insider Find That Email Voila Norbert Hiretual Find That Lead Findemails.com Uplead Rocketreach ContactOut Discoverly GetEmail Sellhack Clearbit Connect CEO Email LeadFeeder Prospect.io MailTester Skrapp apollo.io Lead Fuze ZoomInfo Prophet Linkedin Sales Navigator Ringleads DMS Capture Data.com NinjaOutreach Crunchbase Mattermark Builtwithin Detective Mention Mailshake Snov.io Propeller CRM Aeroleads Mail tester Vainu Owler Demodesk minelead
    - 3np 6y ago
      You should add Hiresweet to that list.
- lmkg 6y ago
  Do you have plans to expand to CCPA requests as well? Some US companies will loudly and vehemently not care about European laws, but are beholden to California laws.
- nicholasjarnold 6y ago
  This is a great idea. Thank you for working on it. Allow me to suggest a feature for your roadmap that might be particularly helpful to people like myself that take this rather seriously: Support users that are in a habit of creating and using a unique email address per service that they subscribe to. (perhaps this is a bit niche for MVP, I realize) For instance, I own a domain that I use solely for email. I have a configuration that allows me to type <any-thing-here>@<my-domain>.<TLD>, after which that email address will automatically route to my main inbox. Therefore, I have probably 100+ email addresses that have been used for various accounts and services like Netflix, Amazon, Foobar Business LLC, etc. It would be great to be able to use your service with my many 'primary keys' rather than just one. Perhaps you plan to support this already, but if not hopefully this comment leads to a discussion/consideration in your team.
unstatusthequo 6y ago
Might be able to help out with CCPA analogue. Not sure how to email you though. Site goes directly to login page.
- georgespencer 6y ago
  mistergeorgespencer+HN@gmail.com Thank you!
ffpip 6y ago
I know your site is in beta, but you should remove the 'See what our customers say' section until you have customer reviews. https://i.ibb.co/zS1zNq6/Screenshot-2020-10-20-Remove-Personal-Info-from-Google-Delete-Me.png https://i.ibb.co/zS1zNq6/Screenshot-2020-10-20-Remove-Person...
- georgespencer 6y ago
  Don't think that's us! KBYE.io currently asks for credentials and doesn't display anything.
  - ffpip 6y ago
    I replied to the wrong comment. Sorry!

georgespencer 6y ago

Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold emails from people I don’t want to hear from. Recruiters, outsource software teams, boutique investment banks I’ve never heard of… it’s a constant source of mild low-level frustration. I don’t have the time to unsubscribe from them all, and archiving is work I don’t want to do. (They also tend to not honour unsubscribe requests…) They call it “prospecting”, I call it “spam”. After GDPR kicked in, I started replying to them with a quick keyboard macro. If I type in ‘gdprfob’, my email client inserts a properly structured GDPR subject access and deletion request. As part of the subject access request, I ask where they got my email in the first place, and what consents they sought. More than 50% of all the cold emails I get use some sort of prospecting database, and none of them — neither the marketers nor the prospecting databases themselves — ever obtained an opt-in. Of course there’s no obligation for them to obtain my permission, as their replies always point out, but that doesn’t really excuse either the discourtesy, or the fact that “this thing we do isn’t illegal” is as unedifying as justifying bigotry with "freedom of speech derrrr!" So we’re cutting them off at the source. We’d love to help people stop these low integrity services from buying and selling their contact details. At the very least it’ll get you out of their system, but maybe if enough people do it, they’ll do the kind, courteous thing and switch to an opt-in service which obtains consent to list your contact details for anyone to see. How it works: give us your email address. Once you’ve verified that you control the account, we manually fill out the forms and send GDPR deletion requests where filling in the forms is not possible. At the end, we’ll send you a receipt which you can use to take up your case with the ICO in case one of the deletion requests is not honoured. We hash your email address after the final receipt is sent so that we can double check you aren’t using us to spam the spammers, but we have no access to your data and our logs are scrubbed clean. We won’t be selling your info like unroll.me did, and we’ve made sure that we can’t ever do it just in case.

aigoochamna 6y ago
Thanks for the summary. Do you have a list of the 50 or so databases you unsubscribe from? Do you have any metrics around how many such databases exist in total?
- georgespencer 6y ago
  There are a lot. A few (this list is unaudited; we did a big dump and as we add a new one we verify that it should be on the list): Hunter.io AnyMailFinder Lusha Datanyze Insider Find That Email Voila Norbert Hiretual Find That Lead Findemails.com Uplead Rocketreach ContactOut Discoverly GetEmail Sellhack Clearbit Connect CEO Email LeadFeeder Prospect.io MailTester Skrapp apollo.io Lead Fuze ZoomInfo Prophet Linkedin Sales Navigator Ringleads DMS Capture Data.com NinjaOutreach Crunchbase Mattermark Builtwithin Detective Mention Mailshake Snov.io Propeller CRM Aeroleads Mail tester Vainu Owler Demodesk minelead
  - 3np 6y ago
    You should add Hiresweet to that list.
lmkg 6y ago
Do you have plans to expand to CCPA requests as well? Some US companies will loudly and vehemently not care about European laws, but are beholden to California laws.
nicholasjarnold 6y ago
This is a great idea. Thank you for working on it. Allow me to suggest a feature for your roadmap that might be particularly helpful to people like myself that take this rather seriously: Support users that are in a habit of creating and using a unique email address per service that they subscribe to. (perhaps this is a bit niche for MVP, I realize) For instance, I own a domain that I use solely for email. I have a configuration that allows me to type <any-thing-here>@<my-domain>.<TLD>, after which that email address will automatically route to my main inbox. Therefore, I have probably 100+ email addresses that have been used for various accounts and services like Netflix, Amazon, Foobar Business LLC, etc. It would be great to be able to use your service with my many 'primary keys' rather than just one. Perhaps you plan to support this already, but if not hopefully this comment leads to a discussion/consideration in your team.

unstatusthequo 6y ago

Might be able to help out with CCPA analogue. Not sure how to email you though. Site goes directly to login page.

georgespencer 6y ago
mistergeorgespencer+HN@gmail.com Thank you!

ffpip 6y ago

I know your site is in beta, but you should remove the 'See what our customers say' section until you have customer reviews. https://i.ibb.co/zS1zNq6/Screenshot-2020-10-20-Remove-Personal-Info-from-Google-Delete-Me.png https://i.ibb.co/zS1zNq6/Screenshot-2020-10-20-Remove-Person...

georgespencer 6y ago
Don't think that's us! KBYE.io currently asks for credentials and doesn't display anything.
- ffpip 6y ago
  I replied to the wrong comment. Sorry!