Tuesday, December 6, 2011

How to delete your mylife.com profile

I've found mylife.com to be one of the most difficult public information sites to remove info from. If you're like me, you don't want your information on the internet unless you put it there yourself. I looked all over the internet, the site, read the FAQ, etc.. and still couldn't find the elusive opt out link to remove the automatic profile listings mylife had of me. As a last resort, you can get your profile(s) removed by calling a phone number, but that isn't very convenient. I even claimed a profile by signing up and still couldn't find how to remove it. Merely deleting your account after you sign up does not remove it!

I finally found the opt out link! It was visible for a short time on the first page you're brought to when you click on an internet search result. It is currently invisible again (I looked with 3 different browsers), but is actually still there in the html. If you have a browser with a no style view option you can see it. You can also see it if you look at the page source. I believe mylife is purposely making online profile removal difficult by not having such a link in clear view for people to use.

Without further ado, below is the opt out URL to remove your profile from mylife.com:

http://www.mylife.com/pub/showMemDirAndPPOptOut.pub?adl=MEMBERID


To find your MEMBERID look at the URL for your particular profile. For example:
http://www.mylife.com/c-70000009
In this case, 70000009 is the member id. Fill out the form and your profile will be removed within days. It worked for me.