Post #1284780
2026-03-22 03:03 UTC
I've managed it. My name and personals no longer show up in any of the search engines, and based on reports haven't been in any known data brokers for over a year.
Applying for credit/housing shouldn't get you listed anywhere. That's in theory legally private.
1. Delete your socials. All of them. Recreate any you might need with falsified info. *especially* LinkedIn. Once you've got a job, disable your profile.
2. I pay a service too to opt me out of data brokers. They send a report every quarter. This is double edged, since you have to give that company a lot of personal info, so use a less sketchy one.
3. Freeze all your credit reports. Unfreeze for 24 hours when you need credit, then freeze it again.
4. if you own a house, contact the county records, tell them to remove you from public listings.
5. Any junk mail you get, run through their opt out process.
6. Go through your Internet history, start deleting your accounts.
7. Google yourself regularly and contact any hosts with a hit to demand they remove you. (or have your data service do it for you). do this on multiple search engines.
It's taken about 6 years, but aside from one Instagram post from a motorcycle dealer who's been ignoring me, I'm virtually invisible.
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@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-22 15:50
Thank you for this. I am glad to hear you had success! I do most of those, but not so far number 4. I don't know about utilities though. I believe that my current power company sells their customer lists, because I get junk mail at a misspelling of my name on file with them. Did you have any trouble with moving companies? I didn't move since the "surveillance economy". It is hard for me to imagine moving companies wouldn't capitalize on selling your new address where they had to deliver. I have also heard that it is better not to file a change of address form with the post office. Instead to change the address on file with your charge card companies or banks directly.