Most creators post some content on purpose: previews on Reddit, clips on X, a link page, an agency’s promo accounts. A takedown service that searches your name finds those too. A whitelist tells it what to leave alone.
Here is what belongs on it, and how to set it up so takedowns never hit your own marketing.
- A whitelist is a list of links and accounts that are never reported.
- Add every promo account, link page and website you or your team run.
- Add partners who repost with permission, like an agency or a collab partner.
- Update it when you open a new account. Unlisted pages can get reported.
Why you need one
Automatic scans match your name, your photos and your videos. To a scanner, your own Reddit preview and a leak site reposting the same photo look alike. Without a whitelist, someone has to guess which is which.
- Your promo posts stay up, so your marketing keeps working.
- No awkward notices sent to your own accounts or your partners.
- Faster takedowns, because nobody has to stop and check what is yours.
What belongs on your whitelist
How it works at Lock Leaks
You add your whitelist during signup, in the “Anything we should leave alone?” step, and you can change it any time in your dashboard. Anything on it is skipped by the scan and never gets a notice. If a result is close to a whitelisted page, a person checks it before anything is sent.
Mistakes to avoid
- ✕Whitelisting a whole forum or file host because one thread is yours. Whitelist the thread.
- ✕Forgetting old accounts you still use for promo.
- ✕Leaving a former agency on the list after you stop working together.
