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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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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.
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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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