Checked October 5, 2026. This is an original audit of the opt-out routes in the takedown registry behind My Privacy Agent: 953 data-broker, people-search and marketing-data sites. We loaded every documented opt-out link in a real browser and recorded what came back. The per-site results are published on each site's opt-out guide.
The short version
- 953 sites, 857 with a documented removal route. 96 sites (10%) publish no removal route at all.
- More than a third of sites (357, 37.5%) only accept removal requests by email. No form, no confirmation page, no tracking number: you send a request and wait.
- 515 sites publish an opt-out link we could load. Of those, 404 (78%) loaded normally, 58 (11%) showed a "verify you are human" wall before the form, 31 (6%) returned an error, and 22 (4%) did not load at all.
- The most-searched sites are the most likely to wall you. Among the 96 sites people search for most ("truepeoplesearch opt out", "beenverified opt out" and so on), 30% of their opt-out links were behind a human check, against 11% across the whole registry.
- One request can cover a whole family of sites. 158 sites route removals through a parent company. InfoTracer handles requests for 53 sites and CourtRecords.us for 49, mostly state-by-state arrest and court-record sites.
- Two big people-search sites lost their domains in 2026. Radaris and PeekYou no longer run opt-outs at all. Radaris's domains were transferred by court order under New Jersey's Daniel's Law; its sister sites are still live.
How we checked
We built the registry from public data-broker lists and our own site visits, then recorded each site's documented removal method, opt-out URL, privacy email and parent company. On October 5, 2026 we loaded each documented opt-out URL once in a Chromium browser from a datacenter network, waited for the page to settle, and recorded the HTTP status, final URL, page title, the visible form fields and any CAPTCHA. Every link that came back walled or broken was loaded again from a residential connection with desktop Chrome, and the better result was kept.
A bot wall from our browser does not prove the form is broken for a person. Most walls are Cloudflare checks that a normal browser passes in a few seconds. What it does show is friction: every one of those sites adds a step before you can even start, and it is a step that stops most automated removal tools.
We did not submit any removal requests during the audit.
What the reachable pages asked for
Of the 404 pages that loaded, 144 included a Google reCAPTCHA and 27 a Cloudflare Turnstile check. The first screen asked for fewer than three fields on average, usually an email address or a profile URL. That is deliberate: most people-search opt-outs now work in two stages. You give an email address, the site sends a link, and only then do you see the record and confirm the removal. If the confirmation email goes to spam, nothing happens.
Where the walls are
People-search sites are walled far more often than marketing-data or B2B contact databases:
| Site type | Links loaded | Behind a human check |
|---|---|---|
| People search | 299 | 45 (15%) |
| Marketing data | 93 | 3 (3%) |
| B2B lead generation | 67 | 3 (4%) |
| Profile data brokers | 21 | 3 (14%) |
| Business search | 16 | 2 (13%) |
Among the most-searched sites, these were behind a human check when we loaded them: TruePeopleSearch, BeenVerified, FamilyTreeNow, PeopleLooker, CyberBackgroundChecks, Veripages, InfoTracer and CocoFinder. Each guide says what to expect and how to get past it.
Email-only brokers are the slow lane
357 sites take removal requests only by email, most of them marketing-data and lead-generation companies. There is no published timeline for most of them; state privacy laws generally give companies 45 days to respond to a deletion request. If you are doing this yourself, keep a copy of every email, note the date, and follow up after two weeks. Each email-only guide includes a ready-to-send request template.
Families: one request, many sites
Parent companies often run dozens of near-identical sites:
- InfoTracer processes removals for 53 sites, most of them state arrest-record sites (Florida, Texas, Ohio and so on) plus USRecords. See the InfoTracer guide.
- CourtRecords.us handles 49 state court-record sites.
- PeopleConnect runs one Suppression Center for Intelius, TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate, US Search and others. See Intelius and TruthFinder.
Each directory page now names the operator and lists the sister sites that the same request reaches, so you do not file the same request ten times, or miss the one site that is not covered.
What this means if you are removing yourself
- Start with the sites people actually search. The opt-out guide index lists every site; the in-depth guides cover the most-searched ones first.
- Use a normal browser, with VPN off. Most walls clear in a few seconds for a person.
- Use an email address you check. Almost every form now ends in a confirmation link.
- Use the parent route when there is one. One PeopleConnect or InfoTracer request covers a family of sites.
- Re-check every few months. Listings come back after new data pulls, and court cases like the Radaris domain transfer can be reversed on appeal.
Data
Per-site results, including the date of the check, the outcome and, for the most-searched sites, a screenshot of the opt-out page, are shown on each site's page under /remove. Journalists and researchers can use these numbers with a link to this page.