Onerep Review and Pricing 2024

Security.org’s Methodology

All my articles start with extensive research. I check out a company’s claims and read online reviews and consumer reports. I also do my best to uncover information about the company itself — its leadership, its organizational structure, and who it’s associated with. As you’ll see, that information can come in handy.

I then purchase the program just like any other consumer would. Over the next few weeks, I get a feel for how it works and test the company’s claims by trying to find records of myself at specific data brokerages. After my tests, I synthesize all that information into a detailed review, offer some insights, and make my honest recommendations.

Initial Scan

On Onerep’s homepage, it offers a free scan to tell you exactly how much exposure you have online. That’s a pretty good deal, so I figured I’d start there. It’s also typical of the best free antivirus software to give a free scan to entice you into buying the full product that protects your device or, in this case, your information.

After you enter your name, Onerep performs an initial scan and — surprise! — asks for your email address so you can see the results. Not off to a great start. I begrudgingly did that, but instead of sending the results to my inbox, it created an account for me. OK… So now I have a Onerep account, I guess. Not exactly what I was looking for, but no such thing as a free lunch. It felt like a phishing attempt to gather my personal information even though it seems like it was just for marketing.

Onerep, one of the top data removal services, then walked me through my well-designed dashboard and, to its credit, showed me how many data brokers had information about me. The initial scan based solely on my name revealed 96 results. That’s a little sobering, so let’s see what we can do about removing my personally identifiable information from the sites by purchasing the actual service.

Onerep’s Costs

Onerep offers three plans: one for yourself, one for your family, and one for your team. It also offers two ways to pay: monthly and annually. Here’s an overview of all three plans.

If you go with the annual plan, you’ll save up to 45 percent on your total bill. Since the program can take a while to show meaningful results, that’s what I’d recommend. Keep in mind: All these plans offer a five-day free trial, as well.

Also worth noting: You can save 20 percent if you complete a survey for Onerep. I hung around on the site for a little bit and then tried to navigate away, and I was provided with a pop-up offer to complete a survey to save some cash. I figured, Why not?

The survey asked some pretty basic questions about my attitude toward online privacy, why I’d want to use a service like Onerep, and what my biggest concerns were. It took less than five minutes to complete, and at the end I was provided with a code to save 20 percent on an annual subscription.

Cool offer and everything, but if you’re interested in removing information about yourself from the internet, why are you being asked to provide more information? That set a weird tone for me, especially given the history of the company (I’ll get into that a bit later), but I wanted to remain objective, try the service, and see how it did.

Let’s talk about my personal experience using Onerep.

Onerep in Action

Onerep starts by asking you to enter as much information as you’re comfortable sharing, including your:

• Full name
• Phone number
• Date of birth
• Address
• City
• State
• ZIP code
• Email address

You can also add as many addresses and aliases as you want, which is definitely a plus. Let’s say I lived in New Mexico and went by my middle name. I could also use Onerep to remove any records of that alias associated with my address out west. Good to know.

Once you enter that information, Onerep scans to see which data brokers are holding information on you. The process takes a minute or two the first time you run it, and it’s set to automatically scan once a month to make sure your information isn’t relisted and doesn’t show up on newly created databases. You can also run a scan whenever you want from your dashboard. It’s similar to running an antivirus scan on your computer or phone, except it scans the internet instead of your device.

After the scan is complete, Onerep starts its automated attempts to request removal from the brokerages it found holding your information. In my case, there were 107 total profiles found. Honestly, I didn’t expect the service to find that many. Good on them.

As far as working with Onerep, that’s about all there is to do. Once you’ve signed up for the service and started the ball rolling, there isn’t much to fiddle with until the opt-outs start taking effect. I’ll check back in one week, two weeks, and beyond to give you an update on the progress.

Onerep at Two Weeks

At two weeks, Onerep had really hit its stride. It had removed 74 total profiles and had 33 in the works. This amounted to 70 percent of the total profiles it found on me, which I’d say is pretty good considering that some data brokers and people-finder sites can take up to 45 days to comply with removal requests.

It’s pretty safe to say that Onerep does what it says it’s going to do, even if it takes a few weeks to build up a head of steam.

That said, there are a few important considerations to make beyond effectiveness if you’re thinking about going with Onerep.

Onerep’s Reputation

First of all, it’s pretty tough to find information about Onerep. There are very few reviews written about it, and information regarding the company structure is difficult to track down. It appears it was founded in 2015 and operates mainly from Belarus, despite being registered in the U.S.2 The company’s CEO, Dimitri Shelest, has a checkered past at best. Among some pretty shady dealings, it has been reported that he’s currently associated with or founded dozens of people-search sites.3 You know, the same ones Onerep claims to remove data from. Those associations caused a deal with Mozilla to fall through.4 Yikes.

To hear Shelest tell it, though, his past is what makes Onerep such a powerful tool. He claims his experience running people-search sites propels Onerep’s technology forward, and he intends to be more transparent going forward.5 Fair enough, I guess.

My Overall Impressions of Onerep

Shelest is the elephant in the room. His background casts a shadow on the service, and I’m not sure I can easily get over it. Despite his claims that his experience has made Onerep’s tools better, I can’t ignore that he still has a stake in data-brokerage companies. As a privacy expert, that doesn’t pass my gut check.

I don’t want to say it’s all doom and gloom with Onerep. I appreciate certain aspects of the service. The dashboard is extremely detailed and easy to navigate — the UI is nearly flawless, save for a few awkwardly written phrases here and there. The automated scans mean the service can run in the background without the user having to do anything, and the affordable price point is certainly appealing.

I must, however, point out the bait-and-switch tactics of the “free scan” that actually signs you up for an account and the survey that offers a 20 percent discount. The survey feels a little “data-collecting-y” to me, and creating an account for you without explicitly saying that’s what you’re doing is a little icky.

I also take umbrage with the big claim that Onerep “removes your data from Google.” That’s questionable at best and predatory at worst. It’s pretty difficult to remove your personal information from Google, since Google is a search engine. All it does is crawl websites that have your personal information on them. It may sound like semantics, but accuracy is important when describing a company’s services. If I wasn’t tech savvy, I may be fooled by that type of marketing into buying a product that isn’t going to do what I want it to do, since what I want it to do is technically impossible.

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