Data Broker Remover vs Optery

Data Broker Remover is a web service that submits data-broker opt-out and deletion requests for one U.S. adult aged 18 or older. Its annual plan costs $30 a year, paid and renewed once yearly. Requests go to covered sites about four times yearly; a site is skipped while an earlier request remains open. The free check searches eight people-search sites using a name and city, displays matching pages, and removes nothing. The paid plan currently sends requests to five of those eight sites, while three are listed for future development. A public catalog names 190 broker organizations, but request availability depends on each broker and state. The service handles matching broker replies and alerts customers when attention is needed. Receipts record submission details, not proof of deletion. Removal is not guaranteed, and data may return. Court, arrest, inmate, mugshot, voter, parcel, state-resident, custom, and extra-person requests are excluded. Account data and receipts are encrypted, with role-limited access and audit trails.

Optery helps people find and remove personal information posted on data broker and people-search sites. Its free platform provides visibility into where information appears online; Free Basic includes personalized exposure reports with screenshots, scans of Google and Bing search results, self-service removal tools, and quarterly reports. Paid plans add automated scans and removals, but brokers may add profiles again after an opt-out. Exposure and removal reports include live screenshots showing where profiles were found or removed. Core costs $3.99 a month, billed yearly at $39, and covers automated removals from 380+ sites, with a limit of one name and city and state per user. Extended costs $14.99 a month, billed yearly at $149, and adds more site coverage, unlimited name variations and past cities and states, an assigned human Privacy Agent, and before-and-after screenshots about every 90 days. Ultimate costs $24.99 a month, billed yearly at $249, and includes custom requests for 950+ sites total after 30 days. Optery also offers an API for partner applications and programmatic access to exposure screenshots. It supports Android, iOS, web, API, and extension. Optery says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest.