Hacker News Reader

And youre not worried that all youve done is fill in the gaps of their data with your drivers license, etc?

"Delete" is a boolean tag in a databse that never actually gets deleted.

They key is to only submit information that they already have, not anything new. For documents that need to be uploaded in some cases, the options are either to use a heavily redacted real document with everything blacked out except for the essential info, or just upload a random file because most of the time no one checks and it is just a required field to submit a form.

You are correct it is not actually "deleted", but it will stop your information from showing up on the website.

IMO, the "best" free people search is https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/. Their opt-out process is also pretty easy.

And if your information is truely deleted, then when they come across your information again, they'll have no record of you, so they'll just fill in the missing gaps.

For them not to share your information, they need to know what information not to share.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com