Data brokers and people-search sites publish your address, phone number, and family connections — and sell them to anyone. This free directory gives you the current opt-out link for every major site, verified and updated. It’s the live companion to our book Delete Yourself from the Internet.
How every opt-out works (60 seconds)
- Find your listing on the site (search your name + city), copy its URL.
- Open the opt-out page — use the buttons below.
- Submit the listing URL + an email (use a burner/alias, never your main).
- Click the confirmation email. Unconfirmed requests do nothing.
This matters most if you’ve already been scammed: people-search listings make it easy for fraudsters to find your phone number and relatives, and to come back as a fake recovery agent offering to get your money back.
🔴 Priority 1 — People-search sites (do these first)
These are what a stranger googling you actually finds. Clearing them removes most of your public visibility in about an hour.
🟠 Priority 2 — The big data brokers (the supply lines)
Invisible wholesalers that restock the sites above. Expect identity verification and up to 45 days processing — that’s normal.
🟢 The legal sweep — hundreds of brokers at once
Everywhere else — the magic sentence (email it to any company’s privacy contact):
“Under [the CCPA / my state’s privacy law / Article 17 GDPR], I request that you delete all personal information you hold about me and confirm in writing when complete. I also opt out of any sale or sharing of my personal information.”
Done-for-you option: removal services
Prefer to have the long tail handled automatically, forever? Reputable removal services run these opt-outs (and re-run them continuously) across tens to hundreds of brokers. Do the Priority-1 list yourself either way — it’s the fastest visible win — then a service makes sense if you’re high-risk or short on time.
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Your IP is only one piece of the picture. Data brokers and people-search sites already hold your name, address, phone number and relatives — compiled from public records and purchased data, and published for anyone to look up. Our free opt-out directory lists the major sites and the direct removal link for each.
Anonymity also means cleaning up what is already out there. People-search sites publish your name, address and phone number for anyone who searches — and most will remove you if you ask. Our free opt-out directory collects the removal pages in one place.
Device data is only one stream of personal information. Data brokers combine what they can buy with public records and sell the result as profiles. To reduce what is already circulating about you, our free opt-out directory shows how to request removal from the biggest people-search and broker sites.
One tip almost nobody follows: remove yourself from people-search sites. They publish your home address, phone number and relatives’ names — the kind of detail scammers use to make a call sound convincing. Our free opt-out directory has the direct removal link for each major site.