Some of the well-known services include Kanary, Optery, and DeleteMe, as well as newer options like Mozilla Monitor and the removal service offered with DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Pro membership. Is there a “gold standard” among these services? I find it difficult to rely on “best data removal service” l…

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There aproach is all wrong I think the redact dev guys were working on a good solution. Best solution is just googling yourself and DMCA stuff, delete old account etc.

[image] securitybrahh: There aproach is all wrong I think the redact dev guys were working on a good solution. I remember seeing a discussion about this in here . I don’t recall comments questioning their services outcomes. Can you delve in the aforementioned inefficiencies? [image] securi…

I use Kanary and it’s been working fine. edit: not anymore I have been eyeing Optery as a potential replacement though, it looks like it might be a bit better. I haven’t actually switched though, so I can’t yet say whether or not it is actually better. Optery does have a decent free plan for scann…

[image] jonah: I have been eyeing Optery as a potential replacement though, it looks like it might be a bit better. Optery does look like it has more coverage. I started a free trial with both and got 23 results with Kanary and 63 with Optery.

The nice thing about Kanary though is that it does general internet searches instead of just searching a pre-set list of sites. That being said, you could probably set up Google search alerts to achieve a similar effect.

Inteltechniques by Michael Bazzell has some tools to help search yourself in the common places and there are instructions for how to file take downs there as well. I’m using DeleteMe myself and then supplementing with random searches on browsers and through Intel Techniques.

Optery is available only for US residents. Atleast that’s wht it says during registration.

I use Optery and have for ~2 years. I’ve been very satisfied with the service so far. I don’t have the free time to sift through the hundreds of data broker websites myself so having a service that does it for me is preferred.

Is this strictly for the U.S.? Are you aware of this working in any other countries? Asking for a friend :stuck_out_tongue:

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