Auto-identity-remove
Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 48178184
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Auto-identity-remove
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 325
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9806138933764136
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- data broker opt-out automation for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an automation script runner (using Puppeteer, Playwright, or macOS automation scripts) that fills out and submits known opt-out forms across common data broker websites.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Aura, NordProtect, SurfShark (data removal services), Google's new captcha with QR code scanning
Concerns raised: CAPTCHA gives failing answers for subjective images despite multiple correct interpretations, Privacy risk: Google can link identity across apps via recaptcha when signed in, Data brokers may ignore opt-outs or re-ask until users comply, Unknown API author requesting private data; lack of transparency and trust, Device ID attestation can be bypassed by reinstalling app to get fresh UUID
Feature requests: Open-source, do-one-thing-well alternative to data removal services, Clear website and documentation; more transparent service design, U.S. legislation equivalent to GDPR with right-to-be-forgotten enforcement
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 757 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 758 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mole · hn · 2025-12-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ResetSpy · github · 2026-09-15 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- web-stealth-farm · github · 2026-09-17 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- web-stealth-farm · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Agent-password · hn · 2026-03-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- genpark-pii-anonymizer-credential-scrubber-skill · github · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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