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Comment by INeedMoreRam | Hacker News Reader

Scrubbing on Search is a good first step towards reclaiming some modicum of privacy, but what about Bing, DDG, Ecosia, Metager, Swisscows, Yandex, Baidu, Kagi, You, Brave, etc?

Guess you’re still just shit out of luck if someone really wants to find you, and knows how.

Also, scrub as much as you want, but Google will still store your info forever and it will be monetized.

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Well, there are services that do that for you for about the cost of a Netflix sub.

I used a YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/optery

There might be better ones, but I haven't looked.

I have an extremely common first name and last name combo. While it does help a lot, even then it has limits. If they have any detail like an address, email, or phone number; more info was available about me online than I was comfortable to share.

I think it would be better to be more aggressive and take preemptive hostile action, rather than waiting for it to appear and desperately trying to scrub it afterwards. There should be a tool to publish false personal details in a way that is indistinguishable from real ones.

So if I want to punish someone I can publish their personal details attached to something embarrassing?

Half of the search engines you mentioned use the Google index. Most of the other half uses the bing index.

Sounds like that would be open to abuse of from black hat seo types.

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