I have been upset recently by a colleague googling me and found my full name on several 3D Printing sites I used to use. I guess I signed in with my google account and so it just pops up now that I’ve deleted all my socials.

I have a fairly uncommon first + last combo so the cursory google search and then sending “delete my data” emails from the email they know from the 3 data brokers who popped up seems good and now just my linkedin is showing (this is the ideal state).

Is there more I’m missing? should I go for a deleteme subscription in case I missed anything? Other sources I should go to?

I really don’t mind sending my own emails to these pests, but is that really all the services are doing? Or is there a backend I’m missing?

  • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    These services aren’t super expensive and they tend to do a pretty efficient job. I had a weirdo trying to doxx me for a year and was just pulling outdated info off broker sites, it’s a pain in the ass and clearing out that into all at once helps ease the mind.

  • hunkyburrito@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Not completely relevant, but the foss website/extension justdeleteme is a good resource for going through and “deleting” accounts.

    Every now and then I go through my bitwarden and delete accounts I don’t need anymore, contributing to the justdeleteme site if it’s not on there.