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Startup idea: charge me $149 and handle all these opt-outs for me. Add in a yearly subscription for on-going monitoring.
by teej 15y ago
Startup idea: charge me $149 and handle all these opt-outs for me. Add in a yearly subscription for on-going monitoring.
- danilocampos 15y agoAs mentioned in the post, looks like someone beat you to it: http://abine.com/products.php http://abine.com/products.php
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- aik 15y agoReddit comment: >> Employee of Acxiom here. The Direct Marketing Association (the-dma.org) is the legitimate trade group of direct marketing companies. If you opt out at the-dma.org, it will be accepted by almost all legitimate datamining companies. DO NOT USE THE ONLINE SERVICES THAT SAY THEY WILL OPT OUT OF EVERYTHING FOR YOU! These "services" send an opt out on your behalf that will be ignored by all the major marketers/dataminers because they only accept opt-outs from individual consumers. The "services" that send opt-outs en masse will collect your info to spam you later. As far as I know, the DMA is the only external organization that Acxiom will honor an opt-out from.
- dotBen 15y agoIt's not very clear on the "the-dma.org" site how you actually request them to remove you, and it takes you via 2 other sites to get there, but the url for consumers is: https://www.dmachoice.org/ https://www.dmachoice.org/
- IgorPartola 15y agoHas anyone actually used this successfully? How long does it take to take effect? The site looks like it is supposed to remove you from junk mail lists, not background check sites/public records sites.
- r00fus 15y agoI have. After recently moving, I opted out (for several years) and I didn't opt out my wife. Only my wife gets the credit card and offer spam. Of course, this does nothing for the local grocery ads and "recipient at <your address>" junk mail.
- jberryman 15y agoI went through the same sort of experience researching the viability of a service that will stop phone book deliveries to your address. There is an official site, here: http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/ http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/ with a similar disclaimer.
- callahad 15y agoReputation.com, formerly Reputation Defender, purports to do just that. They advertise pretty heavily on Minnesota Public Radio, of all places.
- yid 15y agoCalifornia, too.
- onemoreact 15y agoD.C. as well.
- cookiecaper 15y agoI heard an ad for them on NPR out here in Utah. I guess they advertise on the national programs. I thought it was interesting that they promised to "delete" potentially embarrassing information.