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by beyondd 5y ago
Sorry, this statement for citizens outside of the U.S. is buried in the middle of the original post so some people did not see it: "Optery is only for U.S. residents at this time" If you go to the Optery sign up page, after you se
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery covers 200+ data brokers, whereas Removaly only covers 51 data brokers per their web site. Optery’s average scan results find 70+ profiles exposed and often top 100+ profiles exposed (scans are free by the way). Removaly is more co
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by beyondd 5y ago
In the vast majority of cases Optery only submits the opt out (a) if we’ve already located your profile at the data broker, meaning they already have your information to begin with and (b) with the minimum information necessary to complete
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by beyondd 5y ago
At this price I believe Optery still provides more value than easyoptouts. For $9.99, half the price of easyoptouts, you could let Optery’s opt out bot run for 30 days on 100+ data brokers and then cancel the plan before the next monthly pa
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery is only for U.S. residents at this time. Sorry, this statement is buried in the middle of the original post so some people did not see it. If you go to the sign up page, after you select your country, we again warn non-U.S. residents
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by beyondd 5y ago
Thanks again for pointing this out. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is a product experience defect, and is not intended to be deceptive. We made a few quick cosmetic updates to mitigate until we can re-work our dashboard more
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by beyondd 5y ago
Thanks again for pointing this out. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is a product experience defect, and is not intended to be deceptive. We made a few quick cosmetic updates to mitigate until we can re-work our dashboard more
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by beyondd 5y ago
Thanks again for pointing this out. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is a product experience defect, and is not intended to be deceptive. We made a few quick cosmetic updates to mitigate until we can re-work our dashboard more
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by beyondd 5y ago
This is a product experience defect, and not intended to be deceptive. Several comments have cried “foul” on this one and we hear it loud and clear. We apologize this has persisted in the product, and can definitely see how this can be misl
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by beyondd 5y ago
This is a product experience defect, and is not intended to be deceptive. Several comments have cried “foul” on this one and we hear it loud and clear. We apologize this has persisted in the product, and can definitely see how this can be
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by beyondd 5y ago
Thanks for trying out Optery! It sounds like you got the same “Wow” moment most new Optery users describe. Glad to hear! 1) We do see some people activate their subscription for a few months, and then cancel their plan to downgrade back d
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by beyondd 5y ago
We haven't built family plans into our product yet, but in the interim, we have been providing 20% off discount codes for households of 2 to 3 people, and 25% off discount codes for households of 4 people or more. Similar applies for
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by beyondd 5y ago
The modal spawns when the user has just clicked through to a data broker and is about to leave Optery. We have a lot of warnings we're trying to convey on this one modal, most critically, strongly advising users to never share their p
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by beyondd 5y ago
Here's the exact text from Section 1798.135(a)(5) of the CCPA: "For a consumer who has opted-out of the sale of the consumer’s personal information, respect the consumer’s decision to opt-out for at least 12 months before requesti
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by beyondd 5y ago
Yes – Optery definitely helps with this, but it’s not a silver bullet yet. If your phone number is already out there circulating, I would recommend: (a) Start by opting out of as many of the data brokers as you can, in particular the B2B c
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by beyondd 5y ago
We submit complaints to the FTC and state attorney generals offices for non-compliant data brokers all the time. They don't move very fast, but its so great when they finally take action. I highly recommend anyone experiencing pushba
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery isn't designed for this. There are probably some "reputation management" companies out there that handle this situation. I've heard they can be in the $1,000/mo range in cost, but I don't know for sure
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by beyondd 5y ago
Great questions! 1) It really depends on the data broker and the state you live in, but the majority are the latter (prevent the info from being displayed online). When possible we request full deletion, but California residents are really
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by beyondd 5y ago
Thanks for trying it out. One thing to clarify is that we list out each data broker we cover, regardless of whether or not your profile was found or not. We do this partly to support our Free Basic users that use the data broker links in
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by beyondd 5y ago
We hate to hear that you had a bad experience with our customer support since we take it very seriously and spend a large amount of time on it. We love feedback and respond to all inquiries, so please don’t hesitate to tell us how we can i
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by beyondd 5y ago
We’ve been testing ads on Facebook, even though we don't love their privacy track record. But what Facebook and Google do with ads targeting, is very different than what the people search and data broker sites do posting and selling p
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery does compete with DeleteMe. There's some info on how Optery is different than DeleteMe here: https://www.optery.com/introducing-optery-remove-yourself-fr... PCMag also compared Optery and DeleteMe in their revie
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by beyondd 5y ago
To take your first point one further, services like ours don't do anything to remove people's info from the dark web. Indeed, no one can, that's the entire premise of the dark web. And there are some data sets that are inhere
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by beyondd 5y ago
That's certainly one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that if you do nothing, you information will continue to persist, multiply, and propagate unchecked. Those that take the time (or money) to remove the profiles, hav
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by beyondd 5y ago
We do see people activate the subscription for a few months, and then cancel their plan to downgrade back down to the Free Basic tier. The Free Basic tier sends ongoing Exposure Reports, so if they start to see more profiles pop back up, t
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by beyondd 5y ago
Great to hear you are fighting the good fight to protect your data! To answer your question - NO - there is no benefit to signing up for Optery if you do not have a presence in the U.S. The only benefit would be that we will notify you in
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by beyondd 5y ago
Anyone can submit opt outs, with, or without, a service like ours. The vast majority of data brokers do remove the information after an opt out request is submitted. Unfortunately, over time, many data brokers start adding it back. The CC
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by beyondd 5y ago
We have a page up on our Help Desk referencing data brokers that ignore opt out requests (the 5% mentioned in the post above). We refer to these data brokers as "Dishonorable Data Brokers". BlockShopper is one of them. We prefer
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