Take your listing down. Then keep it down.
Step-by-step opt-out instructions for 37 people-search and data-broker sites, checked against each site's own opt-out page. No account, and nothing to buy to read them.
Opting out is a snapshot, not a setting.
Brokers keep loading fresh public records — a new lease, a court filing, an old address someone else's data repeats — and a listing you removed can quietly come back. The removal is real. It just doesn't stay done on its own.
Each re-check is a two-minute search of your own name. Most come back clean; the ones that don't are why you look. The chart uses the same intervals as our re-check calendar, so you can download exactly this schedule.
Months after you opt out
To get off a list, you usually hand over a little more.
Almost every form wants an email address to send a confirmation link. 7 sites want your date of birth to find the record, and 10 want a phone number — Whitepages and 411.com verify you with an automated phone call you have to answer.
What the 37 opt-outs ask for · number of sites
Highlighted: personal details beyond an email address. Read off each site's verified steps, July 2026; optional fields not counted.
Every site, and how to get off it
re-check every 6 months
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re-check every 1 month
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re-check every 1 month
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Rather have someone else keep checking?
The steps here are free and they work. What a paid service sells is the repetition: Optery submits removals like these across 380–635+ sites depending on plan, and re-checks on its own schedule. Its free plan only shows you where you're listed, which is useful on its own. We earn a commission if you subscribe.
Independent directory, not affiliated with any broker. Brokers change their forms without notice — if a page here doesn't match what you see, follow the broker's own opt-out page, linked on every entry.