Why did Bighound warn me about a removal service?

Because we found a documented conflict, and you’d have no way to see it from their marketing.

The pattern

The privacy-removal industry has a structural problem: the same people can profitably operate both ends. Publish the data, then sell the removal. Every listing is a lead.

We track this in the same registry that holds the opt-out instructions. Where a broker’s own removal route is compromised, Bighound shows you what we observed and demotes the link rather than handing you into it quietly.

What we’ve recorded so far

Radaris — its documented opt-out path now redirects into its own paid monitoring product. We verified this against the live site. It stays in Bighound as a discovery source, because knowing you’re listed is still worth having, but we won’t present its removal flow as a removal flow.

Nuwber — connected by ownership to a removal service, which means the same interests sit on both sides of the trade.

OneRep — a removal service rather than a broker, so it’s tracked separately. KrebsOnSecurity reported in March 2024 that its founder had launched dozens of people-search sites and admitted retaining an ownership stake in Nuwber, an active broker. Mozilla dropped OneRep from Mozilla Monitor over the conflict and wound the partnership down. Separately, we observed a Radaris opt-out flow handing a real user straight to OneRep.

What this means for you

Nothing stops you using any of them. But you should know who you’re handing your identifiers to, and “we’ll remove your data” reads differently when the company saying it has an interest in the data existing.

Every warning in Bighound carries its source and the date we recorded it. If we can’t cite it, we don’t claim it.