InfoTracer, PeakYou manual opt-out flows broken on their webpages

[thomas-hervey]

Affected page

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/data-broker-removals/#manual-opt-outs-free

Description

If this issue is incorrectly logged, I'm happy to close and open a different one or a discussion.

At the time of this writing, two of the guide's Manual Opt-Outs Free links did not work. These are issues with the websites, not privacyguides.org. Perhaps this is something that could be flagged in the guide. More suspicious is that when I tried to contact infotracer.com, their contact us form also 403s, so I'm not sure if there's anything anyone can do with that site.

Sources

Here are the details:

• InfoTracer https://infotracer.com/optout/ 's opt-out flow returned a 403 Forbidden after supplying valid required inputs. It attempted to route to https://members.infotracer.com/removeMyData/?_gl=1*1yzhi9o*_gcl_au*NzQ4NTgxNjgxLjE3NzQxMzkzNTc.*_ga*MTU0OTU4OTA5OC4xNzc0MTM5MzU3*_ga_11R7172EN3*REMAINDER_REDACTED

• peakyou.com's "Do not sell my personal information" footer link (along with all the other footer links) navigate to a hash on the landing page, not an actual opt-out page https://www.peekyou.com/#

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[friadev]

InfoTracer seems to work fine for me now, can you test it out and see if it works for you? I'm curious if maybe you have UBlock Origin installed with the Actually Legitimate URL Shortening tool and that is interfering with it.

Weirdly, every single link on PeekYou seems to be broken for me, I just can't use the site at all. I tried in Safari and Chrome but no dice. They still have entries that show up in search results but when you click them you get taken to the same page.