Ghostifier

Ghostifier is a data privacy service that finds every company holding your personal information and gets them to delete it. Rather than completing one request form per company by hand, Ghostifier starts from your inbox: after you sign in with Google, it scans your Gmail to identify the companies that email you and builds a list of everyone who has your details. From there it unsubscribes you from mailing lists, opts you out of the sale and sharing of your data, and asks companies to delete what they hold, tracking every reply along the way. It is free to see who has your data, and it works with Gmail. Companies accumulate a great deal of information about you over time. Your name and address are handed over with every account you open and every order you place. What you buy is saved in purchase histories attached to a profile with your name on it. How you browse is gathered to target ads at you. Where you go is collected by apps and sometimes sold. Data brokers add another layer: they collect and sell information about people who never heard from them at all. Exercising your privacy rights normally means hunting down each company and filing a separate request, which is why most people never do it. Ghostifier's approach is to begin from the records already sitting in your inbox, so the work of identifying who holds your data happens automatically instead of manually. The first step is connecting Gmail. You sign in with Google, and the first scan looks back about two years and shows you every company it finds. Ghostifier is explicit about what it accesses: the sender, the subject line, the date and any unsubscribe link in the header. It cannot open your message bodies or attachments, and it does not store your emails. That narrow set of signals is enough to recognize the companies behind the mail you receive. The scan starts right away after a single sign-in, and the result is a list of every company that has your information along with what kind of company each one is. Once the scan finishes, you see the scale of the problem laid out. In the example shown on the site, 412 companies have your data, of which 148 are marketing mail suitable for unsubscribing. Ghostifier also flags companies it will not delete: 108 in the example, including 61 used within the last year and 38 household names. Nothing has been sent at this point, the scan is purely informational, and the free plan covers this discovery step plus unsubscribing from every list that supports one-click unsubscribe. Seeing who has your data costs nothing; asking them to delete it is where the paid plans begin. After you approve, Ghostifier unsubscribes you from every list that supports one-click unsubscribe, tells each company in writing to stop selling or sharing your data, and then asks it to delete. Deletion happens once any waiting period has passed, such as the return window on an order. Each request is tracked to the legal deadline where your state has one, and if a company misses its deadline Ghostifier follows up once. Every request generates a receipt: the letter, when it went out, and what the company said back, kept in the company's own words as proof. Data brokers are handled too. Ghostifier asks 220 registered brokers to delete your details even if they never emailed you, and the dashboard shows how many were asked, how many replied and how many were done or had nothing on file. You stay in control throughout. You see every company and the plan for it before anything goes out, and nothing is sent until you say go; you can also approve each company yourself. The control center lets you pick how much Ghostifier does on its own for each kind of company, using defaults by relationship from the Balanced preset. Marketing-only relationships are handled automatically for unsubscribe, opt-out and delete, with deletion held 48 hours first. Account and updates, and purchases, ask you before unsubscribing or opting out, and are left alone for deletion. Certain categories are never deleted whatever you pick: banks, insurers, doctors, schools and employers; password managers, email and storage, domains and crypto; anything you used in the last year; and household names like Google and Spotify. Those companies can still be asked to stop selling your data, as your settings say. Settings can be changed at any time. Ghostifier's distinguishing choice is its method. Requests are sent from Ghostifier's own address on your behalf, acting as an authorized agent with a signed written authorization you grant once when you pick a plan. The site publishes the deletion request it sends, which cites the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, notes the 45-day response window, and asks companies to instruct any service providers or third parties they shared data with to delete it too. A separate version is used for data brokers, covering records they gathered from other sources. There is no AI in the loop: every decision follows fixed rules, so behavior is predictable. Autopilot adds a daily check of your inbox, handling companies found later as they appear and following up with companies that keep emailing after you unsubscribe. Payments go through Stripe, and Ghostifier never sees your card. The outcome is a measurable reduction in who holds your data. The dashboard shows counts for Ghosted, meaning companies that have confirmed deletion, and Waiting, plus a Needs you queue for anything requiring your attention, such as a company that emailed you directly to verify the request. A daily activity view over the last three days breaks down requests per day into sent, replies received and completed. Companies confirm in their own words, as illustrated by a confirmation that data was deleted from their systems, and those messages land in your inbox as proof. One user quoted on the site, Jonathan W., describes the emails from companies he never knew had his data confirming deletion as a highlight. Data retention is limited: a list of companies and a few dates, plus each letter and reply encrypted so only you can read them, held until 30 days after a request finishes and deletable sooner. Typical scenarios include clearing out years of accumulated marketing mail by unsubscribing from lists in bulk; reducing the sale and sharing of your data by sending written opt-outs; requesting deletion from online retailers after a waiting period such as a return window has closed; asking 220 registered data brokers to remove records you never signed up for; and keeping the picture current with Autopilot's daily inbox check and weekly summary email so newly appearing companies are handled as they show up. The Needs you queue handles the common case where a company writes to your account address to verify a deletion request, sending you a link or asking for a reply that you complete yourself and then mark done. The site also answers twelve questions in its FAQ, with longer explanations on its data page. Ghostifier is aimed at people who want their personal data reduced without doing the paperwork themselves, particularly those comfortable connecting Gmail and granting written authorization for an agent to act on their behalf. It works with Gmail only, and is delivered as a web dashboard. Payment processing runs through Stripe. Pricing has three tiers: Free at $0 forever, which includes seeing every company that has your data and unsubscribing from every list that supports one-click unsubscribe; Cleanup at $29 one time, adding opt-out and deletion requests to every company found so far, deletion requests to 220 registered data brokers, tracking to the legal deadline with a follow-up, and a receipt for every request; and Autopilot at $59 per year, about $5 a month billed yearly or $8 monthly, which is recommended and adds companies found later handled as they appear, a daily check of your inbox, follow-ups for companies still emailing after you unsubscribe, and a weekly summary email. Upgrading to Autopilot within 60 days counts the $29 Cleanup toward the first year. In short, Ghostifier turns a scattered, manual privacy chore into a single tracked workflow that begins with your inbox: you connect Gmail once, review the companies it finds, approve what should happen, and then watch unsubscribes, opt-outs and deletion requests go out and get answered, with every step recorded and nothing sent without your say-so.