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Optery (YC W22) Hiring First Product Manager, Growth Marketer, Back End Engineer(optery.breezy.hr)
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Optery (YC W22) Hiring First Product Manager, Growth Marketer, Back End Engineer(optery.breezy.hr)
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I tracked down the people selling my data, then stopped them(digitaltrends.com)
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2FA is live now for Optery - here's the help page for setting it up: https://help.optery.com/en/article/how-to-add-multi-factor-a...
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I mentioned a free service posted here recently in another comment (pasted again below) – was this it? The top comment in another data privacy Show HN shared recently illustrates the gap our tool fills: "Does it take into account wheth
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If you sign up for a free account, you will get a free Exposure Report that is usually very eye opening. Most people’s jaws drop when they see how exposed they are. Highly recommended!
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Thank you for your thoughtful and encouraging words. Each of your suggestions is on our roadmap. After adding Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), which is nearly complete and will be released soon, our second most popular feature request is
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Thank you for the kind words and for checking out Optery! We are an Authorized Agent working on behalf of our customers. You can learn more in our Terms of Service here: https://www.optery.com/terms-of-service/
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As has been mentioned elsewhere here, how exactly would it work otherwise? i.e. how do you suggest someone opts out of a data broker, without providing PII? Opting out presents a catch-22 where in order to opt out, you have to tell them wh
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The data broker sites sell information about consumers, that’s primarily how they make their money. It is true that some data broker sites will attempt to charge you for removing your information, but everyone can make these removal reques
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Per our Privacy Policy: “We don’t sell or rent your personal information to any third parties for any purpose. You are the only owner of your Personal Data and can request disclosure or deletion at any time.” Also included in our Privacy Po
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Yes - Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is in development – this is almost ready and will be released soon. No server errors have been reported like what you’ve experienced at other services. A few people received an error trying to log in
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You have a brand new account with no comment history other than this post, yet you’ve taken the time to host screen shots and write multiple disparaging comments with baseless accusations to this post. It sounds like you’re either having a
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The number “168” you referenced reflects the number of data brokers we cover, not the total number of times you’ve been “found”. I can see how this would be confusing though, so it is a good reminder to us that we need to implement better
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There are two steps in the signup process. Step 1 is for basic email and password. Step 2 is for the bare minimum information necessary to find your profiles at data brokers. We found when people skipped step 2 and then logged in, they wo
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Optery is U.S. only at this time
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I responded to this question on this page under a different sub-thread
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I responded to this question on this page under a different sub-thread
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If you click through the original Show HN posted link at the very top of the page, there's a section on the Introducing Optery page titled "How Is Optery Different From Competitors?" with differentiators from OneRep, DeleteMe
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by beyondd 5y ago
If you click through the original Show HN posted link at the very top of the page, there's a section on the Introducing Optery page titled "How Is Optery Different From Competitors?" with differentiators from DeleteMe, OneRep
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I responded to this question on this page under a different sub-thread
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The EU fall under the GDPR and is an “opt in” regime. The U.S. falls under a makeshift patchwork of privacy laws and guidelines, and is an “opt out” regime. In an “opt in” regime (e.g. EU), the onus is on companies to obtain a user’s cons
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In order to opt out of a data broker, you have to submit PII to them to tell them who you are, otherwise, they won't know who to opt out. The exception to this is if the data broker is using an anonymous identifier, like that stored i
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Co-creator of Optery here. Thanks for the good vibes. The data broker industry is large, and there are hundreds of players across different sub-categories (e.g. people search, email, phone, audience targeting, geolocation, past purchases,
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Thanks for the good vibes, and glad you found the deep links useful! To your second point about introducing "noise" into your profile at data brokers to make it more useless. That's an interesting idea, but unfortunately, no
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Hi! Co-creator of Optery here. Regarding our pricing. It is true that most of the opt out submissions and removals happen up front. If someone wanted to go this route, I'd recommend keeping the subscription active for a minimum of 3
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Hi! Co-creator of Optery here. This is a great question. There are hundreds of data brokers across different categories (e.g. people search, email, phone, audience marketing, geolocation, past purchases, TV viewing, etc). Many data broker
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This is great! A lot of people prefer to submit the opt outs themselves. Our Free Basic account can be used to help people do-it-yourself faster by helping with the discovery process. If you choose to sign up for Optery, next to each data
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Hi! Co-creator of Optery here. We do not sell data. We are not a data broker. We do not have any financial relationship with any data broker. We are not affiliated with any data broker. We are privacy enthusiasts who believe consumers sh
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We do not sell data. We are not a data broker. People sign up with us to see what information data brokers are posting about them online, and then are provided with free and paid options to opt out and have themselves removed. Yes - you co

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