That was really informative - so much so you should watch it… but if you really can’t; there are 6 types of data broker and these services only target 1 and in that one they only manage to remove ~1.5% of that data in 6 months of membership.
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I've always thought of these as basically a protection racket. Probably not literally, but close enough.
All I need to know to skip buying these services is that they relentlessly advertise through "influencers" on YouTube
Definitely worth watching.
They are basically more digital data versions of LifeLock. And we all know the legal issues they ran into for disingenuous products/services.