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Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)
If you live in California, start here before paying anyone. One verified request goes to every registered data broker, which the state counts at over 600, and since August 1, 2026 brokers have had to process requests on a rolling 45-day basis, so it keeps working after the first sweep. It costs nothing.
The limits are worth knowing. It reaches registered brokers only, brokers may keep records the law exempts, and status updates can take up to 90 days to appear. It is open to California residents only.
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Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
The free manual route every paid service is competing with. This volunteer-run guide, going since 2017, gives step-by-step opt-out instructions site by site and flags the crucial and high-priority ones, so a few evenings on the marked sites deals with the worst exposure first.
It is also the best way to understand what a paid service is doing on your behalf, and the right pick when you want full control over what you hand to each broker. The cost is time: listings come back, so the checks are yours to repeat.
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Google Results About You
Not a broker removal tool, and worth knowing why. Results about you asks Google to drop search results that show your home address, phone number or email address, checks regularly for new matches and can alert you when one appears.
That makes a people-search page much harder for a stranger to stumble on, but Google says plainly that the information stays on the source page. Use it alongside an opt-out, never instead of one.
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Permission Slip
A free phone app that files requests for you as an authorized agent, built by Consumer Reports and now part of DeleteMe. The free version sends individual opt-out and deletion requests and tracks their status, which suits someone who wants help with the paperwork but not another subscription.
Permission Slip Plus adds automatic opt-outs from more than 100 data brokers and concierge help with awkward forms. It launched in 2024 at $59.99 a year; check the current price in the app, since the service has changed hands.
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EasyOptOuts
The budget pick, with one of the best independent results behind it. As of November 11, 2026, it costs $19.99 a year and opts you out of more than 200 people-search and broker sites with fully automated requests, then rescans about every four months.
In Consumer Reports' 2024 test it had removed 65 percent of profiles after four months, close behind Optery's 68 percent. Everything is automated, so there is nobody to chase a stubborn site for you; it suits someone willing to spot-check the big sites now and then.
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Optery
The service that shows its work. Even the free Basic account sends quarterly exposure reports with screenshots of where your details appear, so you see the problem before you pay, and the higher paid plans add removal reports with before-and-after screenshots.
Coverage grows by tier: as of November 11, 2026, automated removals reach 375+ sites with Core and 620+ with Ultimate, which also takes custom requests. It posted the best result, 68 percent of profiles removed after four months, in Consumer Reports' 2024 test of seven services.
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Incogni
Wide automated reach at a mid-range price. As of November 11, 2026, the standard annual plan costs $95.88 a year and covers more than 420 data brokers, public and private, and the private ones never show a listing you could find. That matters, because those brokers sell data you cannot search for and check yourself.
The trade-off is that you mostly take the dashboard's word for what happened at each broker, though it does show the expected removal time for each one. Custom removals from sites outside its list need the pricier Unlimited plan.
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DeleteMe
The hands-off choice with people in the loop. DeleteMe's privacy specialists do much of the searching and removal by hand and send a report every quarter, and every plan includes custom removal requests, which is how you deal with the obscure local site no automated list knows about.
As of November 11, 2026, standard coverage for one person costs $129 a year. Before signing up, compare the sites its plan covers automatically with the ones where you actually appear, and plan to use custom requests for the gaps.
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Privacy Bee
Worth a look when you want reach beyond people-search sites. As of November 11, 2026, Essentials, about $8 a month billed annually, covers 556 people-search sites; Pro, about $16 a month, extends to 1,353 sites including broader data brokers and accepts custom removals from places like a blog or forum.
Its pricing page names no rescan schedule, saying only that it keeps checking for new and returning listings, so ask before you commit if regular rechecks are your reason to pay.
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Kanary
The specialist for someone with a real threat to plan around. Established in 2020 by campaign security and data science experts, Kanary looks past brokers to search engines, social media and AI platforms, and once a source page is clean it asks Google to suppress the stale link, which it says typically takes about seven days.
There is no free tier, and it costs more than the purely automated services, so it earns its price for someone facing harassment or targeted searches rather than routine cleanup.
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