I'm embarrassed to be considered a Knottie right now

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Schatzi13 said:

jenna8984 said:

Sorry- it's refusing to keep my paragraphs. I just wanted to chime in. After the last 2 days with Sara's post and today's post, it has sufficiently creeped me out 1. how many people attempt to find your info online 2. how much personal info is available on a google search. There are many, many websites that list "public records" with your town, previous towns, address, age, relatives. I manually just spent the last two hours going to each one of these websites and "opting out". Some required me to create a free account before they would hide the info but that's fine. Here are a list of all the websites I found with public info on myself that I blocked in case you wish to do the same- ussearch.com intelius.com acxiom.com whitepages.com instantcheckmate.com peoplefinders.com peoplesmart.com mylife.com beenverified.com Scroll to the bottom and of their sites and either click on privacy policy, help, contact us and the opt out instructions are hidden in there.

Those websites have creeped me out for years. My main solace is that they almost always had an outdated address and phone number listed for me.

I'm not sure how complete this is, but here's a Reddit post on opting out of these sites (ETA: with direct links to the opt-out instructions): link

Thank you so much for this!