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Comment by micromacrofoot | Hacker News Reader

I used OneRep for a few years and it did what it advertised, but that's certainly shady as hell and I'm glad I stopped using their service.

Are there any more trustworthy alternatives? data brokers are scum.

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For an alternative, take a look at Optery (YC W22). We've been flagging the situation at OneRep for years and put a statement out following the Krebs article (link below). We launched to the public as a Show HN in 2021 and as a Launch HN in 2022. Full disclosure, I'm one of the Optery founders.

https://www.optery.com/optery-statement-following-investigat...

Why don't you ask Google to remove pages, while you wait for the perpetrators to honor your page removal requests? I believe Google recently added tools to make this possible.

Optery hasn't addressed that yet, but right now starts at the source (the data brokers), and then submits removal requests to Google directly via their Outdated Content Removal Tool. Here's now it works: https://www.optery.com/optery-and-googles-content-removal-to...

What do you think about Kanary?

Obviously I'm biased so I think Optery is better, but here are two un-biased reviews written by the lead analyst for security at PCMag.com:

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/optery

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/the-kanary

Here's another well-researched and unbiased review:

https://blog.infostruction.com/2023/08/12/privacy-powerhouse...

I'm the founder of Kanary. We received a grant from YC in 2018, and have been growing our privacy service since then.

I see a few of our members commented on this post already, so I'll let them speak to the trustworthiness / impact of our work.

You can also read up on us on reddit r/kanary or r/privacy where myself and the team post updates. Reviews like PC Mag are fine, but that one is almost a year old and includes the bias of the reviewer - if you're on hackernews, you know how much software can change in a year.

I co-founded easyoptouts.com a few years ago because all of the existing options were way too expensive. We focus on publicly-accessible people-search sites. Our customers are happy, and you can check out our privacy policy to see how we handle data.

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