DeleteMe vs Standard Notes

DeleteMe must collect your full personal identity — name, address, date of birth, aliases, family members — to remove it from data brokers, and while it confirms it never sells that data, the primary policy is a deliberately informal TLDR that defers partner data sharing to a separate Cookie Policy, ignores Do Not Track signals, and includes a broad business transfer clause that could expose your data if the company is ever sold.

Standard Notes is an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app that genuinely cannot read your notes; analytics are self-hosted via Plausible with no IP retention, apps collect zero usage data or location, and the subprocessor list is short and transparent — the main weaknesses are US jurisdiction and AWS hosting, the absence of published security audit reports, a thin policy that lacks GDPR rights language, and email marketing enabled by default.