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by samstave 828 days ago
This really needs to be used to make a tool to automate all the "delete my data" requests and have users map out deleting their data/PII etc from data brokers to a git something and people can submit the recipes to delete your personal data.

I just did so on one of the more terrible ones yesterday - and the dark pattern was it would put you in captcha-loops... and youd have to reload/retry several times before stopped asking you firehydrant bus traffic motorcycle crosswalk over and over.

but to save unsub/delete me scripts with this would be nifty.

A recipe bounty would be neat - for example - Optery found me in more PII dbs than I expected - and it would be cool for people to see which brokers they are found in and there is a bounty list for all the brokers people are finding for someone to create a Delete-Me for each thing, so that one hopefully has the help of many to navigate the minefield of dark patterns in such.

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I had this thought as well awhile back, and I'm sure we are not alone. I would love to team up with anyone who would like to tackle this problem. my username at g mail
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