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by billsimms 167 days ago
Is there any way that a potential customer for this service could be convinced that their data was actually removed from these 100+ sites and that they can be convinced what that really actually accomplished? Are there other sites that provide similar services and you could present a comparison showing the pros and cons of each service? If you could do those things then this might more interesting to me. But I have seen some data collection/data search sites that have an opt-out feature down at the bottom along with a disclaimer that yes, if you ask us to remove your data we will do that, BUT you must realize that does not remove your data from the other thousand or billion sites on the net that also have your data and this opt-out is going to do nothing to remove your data from any of them.
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I really appreciate your response. Most companies are legally required to honour the data removal email request.

Offlist is just a tool to make opt out process easier.

Btw, I will be definitely looking more in to your feedback and update the app accordingly in the future.