A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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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.
I probably agree with that, which is why it seems scammy. I’m not sure you can get a true understanding of what is being done or not done either on the effort or the results. I don’t know, maybe these companies have a way of reporting that, but I doubt it.
Anther issue I see is that this seems like a one and done process. Scrubbing your old data when you didn’t realize how much was being out out there and shared is a process, but eventually it ends. If you’re privacy minded enough to use them, then you aren’t continually putting your data out there, so there’s no need for an ongoing subscription.