Peter Yang shares a full prompt to make AI agents opt you out of data brokers
petergyang · x · 2026-10-15
Annoyed by third parties reselling his email (screenshot shows a LinkedIn outreach admitting it got his contact via a third-party tool), Peter Yang shared a ready-to-use prompt for Grok or any agent to mass opt out of B2B contact-data sellers and people-search brokers like Apollo, ZoomInfo, RocketReach, and Hunter.
- The agent first asks for your names, emails, and location, then looks up each provider's current official opt-out route.
- It drafts deletion requests citing the privacy law in your jurisdiction (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, etc.), demanding deletion, an end to sale/sharing, and written confirmation.
- Emails are shown as drafts for approval; web forms are filled for providers that don't accept email; it reports sent/pending items and offers quarterly repeats.
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