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Vinnl 2 days ago

> Telesign, a company that advertises fraud-prevention services for businesses, offers a simple form for “Data Deletion” and “Opt Out / Do Not Sell”. But that form is hidden from search engines and other automated systems, and isn’t linked on its homepage. > > Instead, consumers must search about 7,000 words into a privacy policy filled with legalese to find a link to the page.

In fact, while they do have a robots.txt [1], their form [2] isn't actually listed there. Instead, the page itself has a meta tag:

    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
The reason is probably something mundane like this being easiest to do via the Wordpress UI, but putting on my conspiratorial hat, they just want to make it even hard to find out that they did this.

(Disclosure: I work on Mozilla Monitor, where we try to help people send these data deletion requests.)

[1] https://www.telesign.com/robots.txt

[2] https://www.telesign.com/privacy-requests