PSA: It is perfectly normal for journalists to use services that scrub your identity online. ESPECIALLY journalists who have reported on right wing extremists who *vocally hate and want to kill journalists.* Like, think about this for 2.5 seconds.

This is standard practice for all public figures these days

It’s in some union contracts that the company pays for it.

Do those services actually work? It always feels like a con whenever I see an ad for one.

I just started using deleteme, not even as a journalist, and it's greatly improved my quality of life