Delete yourself from data brokers without a subscription
Details
- External ID
- 49493881
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Delete yourself from data brokers without a subscription
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 30
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8084677419354839
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
I signed up for a paid service to get my phone, addresses, and vehicles off the public internet. It didn’t work. So I built remove-your-data, an open-source repo that tells your agent exactly what to do to remove your personal information online.
Enrichment
- Theme
- image editing and background removal tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- data broker removal without subscription
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an open-source collection of prompt instructions and automated browser scripts directing an agent to fill out opt-out forms across data broker websites.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Paid data removal services, Google Search data removal tools
Concerns raised: Sharing personal info to request deletion creates new exposure risk, Does not handle dark web or password data, Unclear how it removes data already indexed by Google Search, Effectiveness across different data brokers unproven
Feature requests: Dark web and password data removal support, Google Search results cleaning capability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 46 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 47 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 248 days after the earliest competitor.
- Where's My Data? · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Protect My Data · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Unsubscribe Intelligence · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Local personal data redaction for any AI tools · hn · 2026-06-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Orfeo Cofre · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- AI Image Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- LeadHunty · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- opencloak · github · 2026-09-19 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.