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I just looked at a few of these for the services I use. So far I wasn’t able to actually opt out of anything. One service resulted in an error, the rest are just links to their policies where I couldn’t find any actionable links to do anything just them explaining that they’ll keep sharing my data. One explained to me how to unsubscribe from their mailing list with a screenful of text. So “Simple” is not what I would use for these links.


Hmm, I wonder if that opt-out error is by design? "We offer the opt-out so that we are compliant. It's not working? Hmm, it works fine in all of our testing. One moment while I look into this." <checks personal facebook feed> "Yeah, it's working on our end."


That's been my experience with Equifax's mandated services.


I maintain the site. So that I can improve the links or the instructions, could you tell me which ones you tried?

(If it's easy for you to send sanitized screenshots or longer explanations of what you did, https://simpleoptout.com/#additions-and-updates are also monitored.)




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