Ethi

Find out what Facebook knows about you, and delete it.

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Ethi helps you find out how Facebook tracks you across the internet, across the world, collects hundreds of interests about you and tracks your social life. Then we help you delete what you no longer want them to keep!
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Social Mediaā€¢Privacyā€¢Artificial Intelligence
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Michael Jelly
Maker
Hey hunters! We're 3 first time founders stepping into the big wide world, so it's super exciting to be able to show you all what we've built! We built Ethi because we think everyone should to be able to easily understand and control the data companies collect about them. But they don't make it easy! It's crazy that the only way to find out (1) how companies track you, (2) what they know about you and (3) how they use your data, was to trawl through their privacy policies and settings! Helping you understand and control your Facebook data is our first step towards our vision. Unfortunately we didn't manage to shoehorn in any cat memes or themes into Ethi yet (next time, I promise), but to make up for it we've made a **Special Promo Code** to give you 80% off your first month subscribed as an Early Believer (Just Ā£1)! Use MASTERHUNTER in our Stripe Checkout-powered subscription to get that juicy deal. One of our fundamental principles is that our user is never the product. This means we can't give Ethi away completely free. But given that you need to trust us with your data (don't worry, it's encrypted), we think that's a feature, not a bug! If you can't afford it, drop us a Twitter DM @GetEthi and we'd be happy to help. Looking forward to hearing what you think, feedback good and bad is appreciated! Remember: MASTERHUNTER - it works even if you're not quite a "master" yet šŸ˜‰
Sam Abrika
@getethi @michaeljelly There seems to be no limit to what tech companies can do with our data. I love your initiative, it's a great product and hope to see it grow! Congrats to the whole Ethi team!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@sam_abrika Thanks for the vote of confidence Sam - we've got a long journey ahead of us to make sure individuals and not tech companies can decide what to do with their data!
Csaba Kissi
@getethi @michaeljelly I like you guys created this. Sometimes I feel FB is even in my trousers šŸ˜€
Michael Jelly
Maker
@getethi @michaeljelly @csaba_kissi Hahaha I know what you mean! They really follow us everywhere, behind the scenes. We want to make it easy to understand and clean up all the stuff they know!
Abishek Muthian
@michaeljelly Congratulations on the launch! I've used custom scripts to delete old Facebook data, I noticed that Facebook employs several tricks to inhibit such activity including hiding some posts at random while deleting and resurfacing it several months later. That's especially troubling when say a cringe post from a decade ago is the only post on your timeline and you'd never know unless you see your profile page! I hope Ethi has noticed that and has implemented contingency plans to address it.
Ghost Kitty
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Michael Jelly
Maker
@robinsikkens Hey Robin, thanks for asking! It's a good question. There's three reasons: (1) Most people continue using Facebook even after cleaning their history - so we wanted to make it easy to just clean it up every month (2) We are releasing new things onto Ethi, including Google, Twitter and LinkedIn analysis - some of which went up today, and we're building Ethi towards being a live-updating hub of your data that helps you understand your life (3) for Ethi to build a future where you have easy, fluid control of where your data is, and how people use it, we need a stable base of subscribers to do that (rather than wildly fluctuating one-time revenue). From talking to users, once they have tried Ethi they often want to support what we're doing on a longer timescale - and if they don't then they can just cancel - so this made sense to us!
Ghost Kitty
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David Gold
Is this open source? If so, can you share the repo?
Michael Jelly
Maker
@gavid_dold Hey David - we're actually looking for advice at the moment for whether we should go open source, and if we do it, how to do so successfully. I'd love to jump on a call and hear your thoughts about pros/cons of doing it if you would be up for that?
Adam Zolyak
@gavid_dold @michaeljelly could potentially add more services / features faster to amplify the impact
Michael Jelly
Maker
@gavid_dold @michaeljelly @adam_zolyak That's true - if people really started contributing it would be helpful!
David Gold
@gavid_dold @michaeljelly Sure - happy to help. Want to DM? I'm mostly concerned about how you hold a users data. You're asking a lot for us to put our entirely FB data into Ethi.
Michael Jelly
Maker
@gavid_dold @michaeljelly Yes please David! Hit me up on Twitter šŸ˜Š Totally agree - that's my main motivation for doing it. I think it's a really good way to build trust or even to not require trust.