They are a legitimate service. Whether you should use them or not is something you need to decide for yourself.
One of the biggest things they are good for is not giving all of your information away. A lot of these privacy companies simply spam out all of your information and request for the company to delete anything that matches that.
So for instance, if you signed up to a website newsletter with your email, they have your email address. And that’s it.
Then comes a “privacy” company that send them your email address, name, home address, etc and asks them if they have any of this data then they need to delete it.
That’s asinine and backwards.
DeleteMe doesn’t do this. They are more specific with how they process the data removal requests.
I’m not advocating for them, I don’t use them and probably never will. I have no idea if they are a good company or decent at what they claim to do. I just know they don’t do the spam technique.
Personally, any company that is a mass sponsor of YouTube channels is something I won’t trust myself. But that’s just my weird litmus test.
My personal feeling about companies like this is that there is very little reason to assume that requesting my information be deleted will result in it actually being deleted. So at best I’m paying to be ignored.
If I could 100% guarantee that my personal information would actually be deleted upon request then sure it would be worth the money. But we all know that companies violate the law on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, especially if they’re US based. So why bother?
All that nonsense can just hit my spam filter like it’s been doing for the past 20 years. It’s not like I answer the phone to unknown numbers either, so I’m not sure what I’m paying for here.
They are a legitimate service. Whether you should use them or not is something you need to decide for yourself.
One of the biggest things they are good for is not giving all of your information away. A lot of these privacy companies simply spam out all of your information and request for the company to delete anything that matches that.
So for instance, if you signed up to a website newsletter with your email, they have your email address. And that’s it. Then comes a “privacy” company that send them your email address, name, home address, etc and asks them if they have any of this data then they need to delete it. That’s asinine and backwards.
DeleteMe doesn’t do this. They are more specific with how they process the data removal requests.
I’m not advocating for them, I don’t use them and probably never will. I have no idea if they are a good company or decent at what they claim to do. I just know they don’t do the spam technique.
Personally, any company that is a mass sponsor of YouTube channels is something I won’t trust myself. But that’s just my weird litmus test.
My personal feeling about companies like this is that there is very little reason to assume that requesting my information be deleted will result in it actually being deleted. So at best I’m paying to be ignored.
If I could 100% guarantee that my personal information would actually be deleted upon request then sure it would be worth the money. But we all know that companies violate the law on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, especially if they’re US based. So why bother?
All that nonsense can just hit my spam filter like it’s been doing for the past 20 years. It’s not like I answer the phone to unknown numbers either, so I’m not sure what I’m paying for here.
How’s that sweet guerilla marketing money?