Launch HN: Optery (YC W22) – Remove your personal info from the internet
I don't see how this can work at a fundamental level.You're telling me that to remove my info I have to essentially give (through your service) all these companies & data brokers my info so they can opt me out, and actually trust them that they'll do so? If anything, opting out is a signal that you may actually be of more interest to them than not doing anything. If these companies can also infer that the request is coming from your service (and they will, unless you use random proxies and browser automation), the flag becomes "this person has enough disposable money to pay for such a service" which suddenly increases the value of your profile by orders of magnitude.How are you going to make money to justify the VC funding? VCs rarely fund boring, sustainable businesses that sell a service and make a slim profit; for them it's all about hypergrowth, but I don't see the potential here - unless of course you start doing the very thing you're currently protecting against. The simple fact that it's VC-funded tells me to steer well clear.The only proper way to deal with this is with GDPR-like regulation and actually enforcing it - the latter has been lacking in Europe, but thankfully seems like it's somewhat picked up recently.