How to request removal of your contact info from Google search results

Re:How to request removal of your contact info from Google s... by INeedMoreRam on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:00PM (#33338821)

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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Re:How to request removal of your contact info from Google s... by alwayslikethis on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:32PM (#33339063)

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.

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Re:How to request removal of your contact info from Google s... by themitigating on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:18PM (#33339417)

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

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Re:How to request removal of your contact info from Google s... by freefruit on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:08PM (#33338882)

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

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Re:How to request removal of your contact info from Google s... by scrollaway on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:06AM (#33340051)

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

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Re:How to request removal of your contact info from Google s... by chaostheory on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:34AM (#33340483)

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.

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