Security and privacy
DeleteMe alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
yacy/yacy_search_server★3,999 GitHub starslicence unclearDistributed web crawler and peer-to-peer search engine for discovering and indexing web pages and listings.Open on GitHub ↗StevenBlack/hosts★30,818 GitHub starsMIT licenceAggregates curated hosts files to block tracking, ad, and malicious domains across systems.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Coverage and scale of listings removed (DeleteMe claims wide coverage built over years)
- Experienced privacy experts and manual removal labor
- Trust signals, brand reputation, and guaranteed SLA/guarantee
- Ongoing manual operations to handle anti-bot measures and changing removal workflows
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches DeleteMe, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.