Last year I did a major fuckup and bought a .us domain without noticing that they don’t support WhoIs privacy, so my name number and address became part of the public WhoIs database scrapes. Since then my spam texts and calls have vastly multiplied. I’m realistic about the fact that the damage is done and it’ll always exist out there, but I would happily pay some money to a service that sends takedown requests for the data in the public databases like LexisNexis etc. to lessen the damage. Do you know of any services that do this somewhat reliably? Or even a guide or something about doing this manually?

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    3 months ago

    Checking them out, thanks. I kinda wish there was a different pricing model than a subscription for this kind of service.

    edit; after signing up i can actually see within the free tier that there’s a “buy custom scan” option which might allow more piecemeal payments, gonna look into it

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      This is one of the places where subscription makes sense, as they’re providing continual service. Although a one-time “clean it all up” followed by either a cheaper monthly plan or a retainer makes sense.