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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3129 - Q&A: “Would people pay to disappear from the internet?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Could helping people vanish from the internet be a viable business? In today’s episode, we explore the growing market for digital privacy services—and what it takes to offer one.

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.7

Do you ever want to disappear from the internet?

0:13.7

Well, maybe if you're happy with your role on the internet, any profiles you have, could

0:19.2

helping people vanish from the internet be a viable

0:21.5

business? This is today's episode. It might sound like an ad, but no, this is, in fact, a listener

0:26.0

question who's wondering, like, I've got this idea, the world is obsessed or in a world

0:30.9

obsessed with gaining followers, going viral, et cetera. What about the opposite? People out there who

0:35.7

want less online attention not more and there

0:38.6

definitely are a lot of people who you know fit that description so she's wondering instead of

0:43.5

helping people grow their online presence you know there's lots of businesses that do that

0:47.1

she wants to help them erase it or at least minimize it i want to go away on the internet

0:51.9

i want to disappear banish the internet. I want to disappear, vanish, et cetera. For those people,

0:56.6

could this side hustler, in fact, create a service? I guess you could call it what,

1:01.8

disappearance as a service, something like that. How would you structure a business around

1:05.9

something that requires so much trust? Because obviously, you're going to have to trust

1:10.5

the person who does this as a service.

1:12.2

Anyway, let's look at it. Let's consider pros and cons of this idea. We've got lots of people out

1:16.1

there doing all kinds of interesting things. And we use these questions as proxies. Maybe there's

1:21.6

something else you want to do. How do you evaluate what is the best choice for you? Consider that as

1:26.0

you hear today's question and my answer coming up

1:28.4

right after this. Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your

1:36.3

business? I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff

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