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Optery founder here. If you're taking a look at Mozilla Monitor, I recommend taking a look at Optery too: - Optery's Ultimate plan covers 300+ data broker site

Optery founder here. If you're taking a look at Mozilla Monitor, I recommend taking a look at Optery too: - Optery's Ultimate plan covers 300+ data broker sites and offers Unlimited Custom Removals providing the most comprehensive coverage in the industry. Optery has a variety of plans for different coverage needs (Free, Paid, Family, Business), and the ability to pause or cancel a subscription at any time. - Mozilla Monitor Plus is powered by OneRep, which partners with data brokers through its affiliate program: https://imgur.com/a/juSC66b https://imgur.com/a/juSC66b. This is a fine line most data removal services do not cross. Optery's removals are proprietary and are not powered by any other company. - Optery (YC W22) was awarded the Fast Company Next Big Things in Tech in 2023 and PCMag.com Editor's Choice award in 2022 and 2023, over DeleteMe, Kanary, Incogni, IDX Privacy, etc. - Optery has completed its SOC 2, Type II security certification. To our knowledge, DeleteMe is the only other data removal service with this certification. This is probably the most overlooked attribute when selecting a data removal service.

lkdfjlkdfjlg 3y ago
> Optery (YC W22) Nothing against your company specifically, but at this stage anything associated with YN is a negative.
- fdgadfagfgd 3y ago
  I think if you express an opinion like that you ought to say why too. It could be you have a point. But you could also be (mis)interpreted as a critic who, instead of building things themself, finds imperfections in things the real builders make...
some_random 3y ago
Wait what, why would a data broker partner with a company whose entire purpose is to reduce the completeness of their dataset?
- tholtken 3y ago
  money
- fdgadfagfgd 3y ago
  If you ever do this manually, the data brokers that have data removal options will first show you an ad for using a removal site. Because that way, they at least get a cut of the proceeds when you sign up. Data brokers don't get much benefit from people doxing $some_random, other than a few dollars for every thousand people who do that. But, they can get $10s of dollars for when $some_random signs up with their affiliate link. So, you have a clear conflict of interest with onerep not blocking data brokers from their affiliate. It probably doesn't go very deep, but with the subscription-based nature of these privacy services you start to wonder what happens when you churn...

lkdfjlkdfjlg 3y ago

> Optery (YC W22) Nothing against your company specifically, but at this stage anything associated with YN is a negative.

fdgadfagfgd 3y ago
I think if you express an opinion like that you ought to say why too. It could be you have a point. But you could also be (mis)interpreted as a critic who, instead of building things themself, finds imperfections in things the real builders make...

some_random 3y ago

Wait what, why would a data broker partner with a company whose entire purpose is to reduce the completeness of their dataset?

tholtken 3y ago
money
fdgadfagfgd 3y ago
If you ever do this manually, the data brokers that have data removal options will first show you an ad for using a removal site. Because that way, they at least get a cut of the proceeds when you sign up. Data brokers don't get much benefit from people doxing $some_random, other than a few dollars for every thousand people who do that. But, they can get $10s of dollars for when $some_random signs up with their affiliate link. So, you have a clear conflict of interest with onerep not blocking data brokers from their affiliate. It probably doesn't go very deep, but with the subscription-based nature of these privacy services you start to wonder what happens when you churn...