Your good reputation: alternatives for the white vest online

Everyone leaves traces on the Internet - whether consciously or not. So blasphemy over a work colleague can quickly be fatal. Internet services like deingutruf.de or web-killer promise to give you a clean slate online. We'll tell you how much these services really bring and what the free alternative Google Alert is all about.

This is offered by services such as your good reputation, Datenwachschutz.de & Co.

Services such as web-killer.de, deingutruf.de or datenwachschutz.de advertise to give you a clean slate on the Internet at affordable prices. They offer various services.

• The services promise to delete your posts on the Internet. The respective operators of the servers are contacted for this.
• You can also get an overview of your online reputation for 20 to 30 euros. The companies do the research for you and then send you a document. Critical points are already marked.
• Monitoring over a period of several months is also offered. The prices range from 2 euros at deinguterrruf.de to 99 euros per month at deinwebkiller.de. You can have terms monitored and you will be informed of changes by email. Deinwebkiller.de also contacts Google to remove unloved entries.

This is how the services work

Deleting posts from the Internet is not easy.

• Because the companies cannot delete the contributions from the Internet themselves. Instead, they contact the operator of the server and ask them to remove the desired content.
• However, this does not ensure that the operator really deletes the content. This can only be forced with the help of a court ruling to make content disappear.
• So it may be that you have to pay, although the removal did not work. The companies boast of success rates of 80-95%, but it is questionable whether these can really be met.
• It is therefore not advisable to use such services. Because deleting is often not possible. However, the payments are due in any case.
• Google itself offers with Google Alert a free tool with which you can monitor certain terms. From this point on, you will receive an email weekly or daily when your name appears. A link is always included. After entering the corresponding page, it is possible via denic.de to find out who is responsible and thus possibly prevent anger.