Marco Arment

There's this gross business called data brokers.

These are the sites that when you search for somebody's name in a search engine, you get all these sites advertising like home address, phone number, family members names, like basically trying to give you trying to dox this person for a fee basically.

And, you know, you're out there probably because what these sites do is they collect as much data as they can from as many places as they can.

So they have records on as many people as possible.

And these sites each have some kind of like individual opt out or takedown procedure, but they're all different.

And you're never going to know as an individual what all these sites even are, let alone have the time and ability to go opt yourself out of all of them.

And there's new ones popping up all the time.

So delete me is a service that you sign up for.

You give them the information that you want deleted from those data broker sites and

And then there's an ongoing process where they are constantly searching for new sites, and they have an automated process that opts you out of all of the ones that they can find.

And so you sign up for delete me, you give them the information, you authorize them to say, hey, please go remove this from all the data brokers that you know about.

And Delete.me will then go and do that for you.

So you could never do this on your own because that's just way too much work for a single person.

But having a service that automates this in bulk is amazing.

So Delete.me is great for this.

I personally was looking for one of these services a few years ago, and I found Delete.me before they were a sponsor.

They were the best recommended.

They were the best rated.

So I signed up for them.

They're great.