All I need to know to skip buying these services is that they relentlessly advertise through “influencers” on YouTube
What DeleteMe and Incogni aren't telling you
Submitted 1 day ago by northernscrub@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3JT6q3AxA
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Jhex@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
master5o1@lemmy.nz 20 hours ago
I’ve always thought of these as basically a protection racket. Probably not literally, but close enough.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Definitely worth watching.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They are basically more digital data versions of LifeLock. And we all know the legal issues they ran into for disingenuous products/services.
manualoverride@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That was really informative - so much so you should watch it… but if you really can’t; there are 6 types of data broker and these services only target 1 and in that one they only manage to remove ~1.5% of that data in 6 months of membership.