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hi there, US-based entrepreneur, former VC.

my public key: https://keybase.io/slvrspoon;

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slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Abine + DeleteMe - the online privacy company | WFH / REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers, Growth Marketers, PM's, ETC. | https://www.abine.com/ | https://joindeleteme.com/

We are a profitable small but fast-growing company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with integrated privacy aliases / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe is a SaaS service for removing private information from the Web / data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal info.

We're looking for strong web application, mobile, and full-stack developers, growth marketers, legal-tech and data-science professionals, who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE | Full Time | Full Stack Developers, Product Manager, Designer, Growth Marketers, Devops | | https://www.abine.com/ and https://joindeleteme.com/ |

We are a profitable remote-first company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products: 1. Blur is a password manager with "disposable" emails, phone, and credit card #'s integrated into it to help people mask / control their personal info. 2. DeleteMe is a paid service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web app and full-stack developers to support our massive growth. We are profitable, have millions of users, and love what we do. Our stack has Ruby, Node, Java, IOS, Android, Kubernetes (among others) but we're most interested in Software Developers that love to build great products and make a difference. If that describes you, we'd love to talk.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please). Again --> No Recruiters, no Development Consulting Companies. 2. helpful if you can include: a) full CV b) desired comp range and c) availability / start date

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
Abine + DeleteMe - the online privacy company | WFH / REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/ | https://joindeleteme.com/

We are a profitable small but fast-growing company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with integrated privacy aliases / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe is a SaaS service for removing private information from the Web / data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal info.

We're looking for strong web application, mobile, and full-stack developers, growth marketers, legal-tech and data-science professionals, who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. no recruiters. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | Full Time | Growth Marketers | Product Managers | Web application and Full Stack Developers | Operations Automation Experts | https://www.abine.com/

We are a profitable small company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a privacy-focused password manager and payment wallet. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/ or https://joindeleteme.com

We are a profitable small company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

Privacy and data collection is becoming (arguably) THE central issue of the 2020's. Join us as we grow to meet these challenges and create new opportunities!

We make two products. Blur is a password manager foundation with privacy aliasing / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong Front End, mobile, web application and full-stack developers, PM's, Growth marketers, and content specialists who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | Front End | Marketers | Product Managers |

https://www.abine.com/ https://joindeleteme.com/

We are a profitable small company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager foundation with privacy aliasing / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards.

DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers, front end guru's, expert marketers, and PM's who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE | PART Time or Full Time | Full Stack Developers and Product Managers and Front End Developers | https://www.abine.com/ and https://joindeleteme.com/

We are a profitable small company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is privacy browser extension with a password manager foundation + privacy aliasing / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application/full-stack developers and product managers and front-end developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please!) 2. helpful if you can include your location, a full CV and desired comp range.

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a profitable small company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager foundation with privacy aliasing / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Is anybody still using Windows 95?
microsoft word today - with "onedrive" and "server-connected DRM" sucks so bad when you are offline just trying use YOUR @#$23 PC it is a travesty.

just wait til the exact same UX comes to your automobile.

and after that...

slvrspoon··on Data Broker Opt-Out List
founder of deleteme here (joindeleteme.com) Yael's list and other free DIY lists are good. You can do this yourself, it is simply time-consuming. https://joindeleteme.com/help/diy-free-opt-out-guide/

The worst part imhop is that your opt-out is often not respected over time when new data flows in (including voting records scraped so get ready for November).

Of course, you can always pay deleteme to do it for you. the real solution here is better-crafted legislation and a re-definition of public record information when it is published virtually.

i expect this to take ~5 years, but optimistic we can get there.

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a profitable small company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager foundation with privacy aliasing / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe (joindeleteme.com) is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are hiring for senior tech leader(s) down to super-capable full-stack junior engineers.

We are a profitable, small-ish, distributed company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is privacy-enhanced password manager. It integrates privacy aliases / tokenization to help people mask & control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards.

DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV, favorite type of role, and desired comp.

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Best service to remove info from online data brokers?
thanks for the questions. 1. DeleteMe's been focused on the biggest and most cumbersome to remove sites. We pride ourselves on doing a thorough job and we use real people to make sure searches are comprehensive and removals complete. we're careful about the quality as we add new data brokers. that said, we should - and are adding more and more. our experts also help with custom requests. what we call "repopulation of data" is also a systemic hard-to-control problem. this is why DeleteMe's a subscription service that keeps checking and removing for a single price all year.

2. best practices are things most HN concerned people are doing... pass manager, tracker blocker, not everything in a single cloud, vpn, etc. the most interesting thing our Blur product does is let you "compartmentalize" key credentials for each 3rd party you exchange data with. meaning: Blur gives you unique emails, phone, and credit cards as well as passwords, stores them locally, and has a proxy server to route between your private credentials, and the new ones you generate. you can use gmail as your "private mail"

lastly, i'd stress: these things help a bunch to make it harder to correlate your identity cross-domain. that said, anonymity is - and has long been - very difficult to attain and expensive to maintain. don't kid yourself on the difference :)

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Best service to remove info from online data brokers?
co-founder of DeleteMe here. removal from myriad numbers of top data brokers is a onerous process but it can be done free. our service, DeleteMe - www.joindeleteme.com (NOT sadly the obvious url) has both a FREE option which guides you through each removal OR our paid annual "we do it all for you" service. some of the data brokers make it pretty easy, others display criminal-esque behaviors. it is a shady business, and privacy laws are going to be important in controlling it better. @PangurBan is right to use separate emails when possible (Abine has a freemium product for this called Blur). also, Onerep is a competitor to DeleteMe - it is newer, cheaper and the team is in Eastern Europe but we believe they're a legit service. Happy to answer any other questions from HN.
slvrspoon··on Presentation: The Technical Evolution of Mailinator.com
awesome testbed platform evolution story.
slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
Abine & DeleteMe - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers + Tech leaders | https://www.abine.com/

We are a profitable company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a privacy-identity manager which does alias "masked" credentials for emails, credit cards, and phones on the fly built on a password manager foundation. DeleteMe (joindeleteme.com) is a service for removing private information from data brokers.

We're looking for ALL levels (from tech leaders to smart junior engineers) of strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom.

1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV and desired comp range

slvrspoon··on I Am Deleting the Blog
the ability to speak pseuodononymously and or separate out your personal and professional life is critical.

we can try to help you - at least a bit - JoinDeleteMe.com

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | WFH REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a profitable small distributed company focused on better, easier, online privacy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager foundation with privacy aliasing / tokenization built-in from the ground up to help people mask / control their PII credentials like email addresses, phone numbers, and credit cards. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from many data broker sites that list and sell consumers personal profile data.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom 1. no recruiters (please, really, please) 2. helpful if you can include both a full CV, favorite type of role, and desired comp.

thanks!

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. Please detail part or full time preference and desired compensation if possible. No recruiters, thanks.

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/ and https://joindeleteme.com/

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

No recruiters please. Desired salary + CV if possible. Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom.

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/ | https://joindeleteme.com/

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom - include your resume and desired salary if possible. No recruiters, thank you.

slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/ | https://joindeleteme.com

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. (no recruiters thanks)

slvrspoon··on I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf
Online background checks increasingly incorporate all this social info but ALSO link it to other identity data. Next, combine it with profiles bought from data brokers which can include all basic personal info combined with political affiliation and prior salary, etc. Here's some steps to opt out of their databases: https://joindeleteme.com/help/deleteme-help-topics/opt-out-g...
slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | Part Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a growing profitable company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. "Blur" is a privacy-focused password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. "DeleteMe" is a service for removing private information from data brokers and Google searches.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. No recruiters please. Detailed knowledge of our products is a plus.

slvrspoon··on Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming
Malthusian insanity. Population will decline globally w/in 75 years. Advances in natural power generation will make it economical for humans to align electric consumption with natural resources. As usual, even HN'ers are temporally ego-centric. Hakuna Matata.
slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. (no recruiters thank you)

slvrspoon··on Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account
https://joindeleteme.com/help/diy-free-opt-out-guide/

why is a backgroundcheck company the right sponsor for a deletion directory?

slvrspoon··on A Potential Privacy Model for the Web
we designed www.abine.com's Blur to enable users to implement some of these "compartementalization" techniques in practice. web traffic, fingerprinting, and tracking is one layer, but stateful registration, login, and payment is a whole other layer. tldr: it is a tough problem to deliver a simple experience on.
slvrspoon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
Abine - The Online Privacy Company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | Full Time | Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing personal information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers - anywhere - who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and are growing because of Equifax, Facebook, you name it.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. (please, no recruiters)

slvrspoon··on Launch HN: Hatchways (YC S19) – Internships Instead of Interviews
I think this is good and would be interested in trying some hiring via you.
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