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Show IH: Delete your personal data from data resellers to stop you getting spam

Hi Indiehackers,

I've started a service which deletes your personal data from data resellers/traders which as a result stops you receiving sales or recruiter calls/emails.The service forces companies which sell your data to Sales teams and recruiters to delete it. This works via GDPR and CCPA. 
You probably have never heard of companies, like Cognism, Lusha, etc., which have received millions of dollars of investment selling your personal data without people knowing.
Example data stored by these companies:Data about you:
Full name, First name, Last Name, Email (verified), Education (university), Location (city, state, state code, country, country code, latitude, longitude, timezone), Short biography, Homepage, Avatar, Job title, Job role, Sub role, Seniority, Facebook handle, GitHub (handle, avatar, company, blog, followers, following), Twitter (handle, bio, followers, following, status, favorites, location, site, avatar), LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Private phone #1, Private phone #2

Data about your employer:
Company name, Company name alias, Website, Country, City, State, Zip code, Company phone, Industry, Company address, Company LinkedIn URL, Company Crunchbase URL, Company Type, Technologies used by company, Financials, Year founded, Reply sentiment
Different data resellers have different data fields.

Link to the new service is here:https://gosauber.com
The goal of the service is to make people aware what information is stored on them and give a chance to decide what and how your data is shared.

In the future I was thinking of adding functionality of also erasing web tracking data and different types of companies.
Looking forward to some feedback, as this is my Indie-hacker project.

on February 3, 2021
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    I looked into starting this a few months ago because I thought there was an opportunity.

    Two issues I came across. 1) most people don't care, they say they'll mark emails as spam or block them before they pay for a service 2) many of the data providers require you to confirm your email which creates work for the customer.

    What have you come across in your research?

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      What were your thoughts why this might be useful?

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        I was getting annoyed with how many bad sales emails I receive and I know others do too

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          Would you use a service like gosauber.com? Would you think referrals might work for me? So far I had a lot of users who care a lot about their privacy.

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            I wouldn't pay for this. It would take me 10 minutes to do on my own.

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      Hi, excited to hear that someone else thought of this! You can stop the emails before they come in, and also many people including myself, get easily 10 phone calls (!) a day from SaaS sales people and recruiters. I've tested getting the data deleted with a lot of providers and even though many try to make it difficult i've founds ways around that email confirmation issue you mentioned.

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