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update!: Remove Optery (#2765)
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- TruePeopleSearch
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- Whitepages
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Once you have done this, it's best to wait a week or two for the requests to propagate to all their sites. Then, you can start to search and opt-out of any remaining sites you find. It can be a good idea to use tools like [Optery](#optery-free-paid)'s free reports or [Google's *Results about you*](#google-results-about-you-free) tool to help find any data that remains on the internet.
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Once you have done this, it's best to wait a week or two for the requests to propagate to all their sites. Then, you can start to search and opt-out of any remaining sites you find. It can be a good idea to use a web crawler like [Google's *Results about you*](#google-results-about-you-free) tool to help find any data that remains on the internet.
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Otherwise, privacy journalist Yael Grauer has compiled an excellent list of data broker sites with direct links to their search tools and opt-out pages. You can take some time to go though each site to determine whether they have your information, and remove it:
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@ -61,24 +61,6 @@ Some websites supported by EasyOptOuts are publicly searchable. In those cases E
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Our testing indicates that EasyOptOuts provides the best value out of any data removal service we've tested, with a very affordable price and high effectiveness. We will publish a detailed review of EasyOptOuts on our blog in the near future and update this page when it is published. [Independent findings from Consumer Reports](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/consumer-reports-evaluating-people-search-site-removal-services/19948) also indicate that EasyOptOuts is one of the top performing data removal services.
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## Optery <small>Free & Paid</small>
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<div class="admonition recommendation" markdown>
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{ align=right }
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**Optery** is a free scanning tool which will discover which people search sites have your personal information, provide you with a report of those sites, and link you directly to the self-service removal process to do manually. If you keep your account, the report will be updated quarterly. Optery also has paid plans available where they will submit opt-out requests automatically on your behalf.
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[:octicons-home-16: Homepage](https://optery.com){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
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[:octicons-eye-16:](https://optery.com/privacy-policy){ .card-link title="Privacy Policy" }
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[:octicons-info-16:](https://help.optery.com){ .card-link title=Documentation}
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</div>
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Optery's free scanning tool is an effective way to discover which data brokers have your information already, and their self-service dashboard allows you to easily submit opt-out requests manually.
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We have not finished testing Optery's premium, *automatic* opt-out plans, although initial results appear to be positive. [Independent findings from Consumer Reports](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/consumer-reports-evaluating-people-search-site-removal-services/19948) also indicate that Optery is one of the top performing data removal services. It necessarily takes at least a few months for us to evaluate a new data removal service, so check back here soon for our own test results. We will also publish a detailed review of Optery's full service on our blog when we have completed testing, and we will update this page accordingly.
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## Google *Results About You* <small>Free</small>
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This method will require you to submit your personal information to Google for them to periodically monitor their search results for. Google claims to not use the information provided to this tool to "personalize your experiences" across other Google products.
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<div class="grid cards" markdown>
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- { .twemoji loading=lazy } [EasyOptOuts](data-broker-removals.md#easyoptouts-paid)
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- { .twemoji loading=lazy } [Optery](data-broker-removals.md#optery-free-paid)
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- { .twemoji loading=lazy } [Google *Results about you*](data-broker-removals.md#google-results-about-you-free)
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</div>
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