How to opt out of 200+ data brokers selling your address and phone for $200B/year
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-09-14
This is one step of a thread on removing yourself from data brokers: use a burner email and have your profile URL ready before submitting opt-outs — brokers reuse confirmation emails for future marketing, so never use your primary inbox.
The full thread: Google "Your Name" + your city to find the people-search sites exposing you most (Whitepages, Spokeo, BeenVerified); California residents should use the CPPA's DROP platform to send one deletion request to 600+ registered brokers at once; then manually hit the upstream aggregators (Acxiom, LexisNexis, Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified), 20-30 minutes each, to cut off dozens of downstream sites. The author notes the industry is worth $200B+ a year.
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