rahulkandoriya

I'm Rahul, and I provide cold email services. While handling a lot of campaigns.

I run into a similar question: "Where did you get my data?" from prospects every few days.

The current tools like DeleteMe, Incogni, etc are expensive, subscription-heavy, and all of them ask for creating an account, perhaps a passport upload as well. The irony here is that data removal services are asking for more data :)

To opt out of any data broker, a person just needs to send an email. 1-2 emails can be managed, but sending to 300 requires 75 hours if we consider 15 minutes per email.

So, to save 75 hours, I built offlist.me: Opt out of 300+ data brokers. Generated in your browser. Sent from your inbox. Cited under CCPA and GDPR. No account, no subscription.

Happy to get feedback from the community and improve the product.

I really appreciate your response. Most companies are legally required to honour the data removal email request.

Offlist is just a tool to make opt out process easier.

Btw, I will be definitely looking more in to your feedback and update the app accordingly in the future.

Edit: I have updated the app so it now asks for nothing and generates the removal email request directly. It made the user journey simpler. Thank you so much for your valuable feedback.

I can understand your feedback. You’re right that “no signup” can still feel misleading if the app asks for name/email, even if nothing is stored. The intent was purely to pre-fill templates locally, but I agree that trust-wise, that distinction may not matter.

One change I’m actively considering based on feedback like this is removing personal info inputs entirely and defaulting to: select platforms > generate email directly on your own email app/website.

On pricing: the goal wasn’t to hide that it isn’t free, but to avoid subscriptions and data lock-in. The app is free to use to generate email removal requests for up to 3 platforms (+3 if you share with your social media). So the free user can generate email removal requests for 6 platforms(any 6 from the 100+ available platforms according to their priority).

That said, I agree that even a small payment raises the trust bar significantly for a privacy tool.

This feedback is helpful, and I really appreciate it. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

One thing that surprised me while building this was how much manual effort is involved if you try to do this carefully. Finding the correct contacts and writing compliant data removal requests. It takes around 29+ hours for 100+ platforms.

I’m curious how people here handle this today: fully DIY, scripts, or any tool?

The whole thing of asking "which programming language" is not the good idea. As a programmer the main fundamentals to solve the problems in any language are somewhat same. For example I was developing native android apps using java and due to clear fundamentals I was able to pick up the dart language to use flutter within weeks.