Why One Directory Page
Individual opt-out guides are useful when you already know which site has your listing, but most people start this process not knowing which of the dozens of people-search sites actually have a profile on them. This page exists as the single starting point: every broker-specific removal guide we’ve published so far, in one place, plus an honest note on what’s still missing and how to close that gap without waiting on us to publish a guide for every site individually.
Site-Specific Opt-Out Guides Published So Far
Thirteen individual walkthroughs are live right now, each with the exact removal steps for that specific site as of when we last verified them:
- Spokeo
- AllPeople
- SpyDialer
- uFind.name
- USATrace
- FreePeopleDirectory
- CourtRec
- AmericaPhoneBook
- SealedRecords
- PersonSearchers
- PropertyRec
- PropertyRecs
- PropertyRecord
Major Sites We Haven’t Published a Dedicated Guide For Yet
Whitepages, BeenVerified, TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch, Intelius, and Radaris are among the largest people-search sites by traffic, and we don’t yet have a step-by-step guide for each of them on this site. Rather than leave that gap silent, here’s what actually works in the meantime: every one of these sites publishes its own opt-out or “do not sell” page, usually reachable by searching “[site name] opt out” directly, and the general removal pattern is consistent across nearly all of them, find your listing, copy the profile URL, submit it through the site’s removal form, and confirm via email if asked. Our opt-out checklist walks through that general process step by step even where we don’t have a site-specific guide yet.
Handling the Rest at Scale
Manually opting out of a dozen-plus individual sites, and then repeating it every few months as listings reappear, is realistic for some people and not for others. If you’d rather not track this yourself, a removal service handles the same requests across a much larger list of brokers (well beyond what any single site publishes guides for) and re-checks on an ongoing basis. See our comparison of Incogni, DeleteMe, Optery, and Aura if you’re weighing that option against doing it yourself.
The Bottom Line
This directory will grow as we publish more site-specific guides, bookmark it rather than any individual guide page if you want the current full list. In the meantime, the guides above cover real, verified removal steps for thirteen sites, and the general pattern in those guides applies reasonably well to most other people-search sites you’ll encounter, even ones we haven’t written up yet.
How to Find the Brokers Nobody Has Written a Guide For
The gap above — the sites with no dedicated walkthrough yet — is smaller than it looks, because you do not have to discover those companies one at a time. California maintains a public register of them. Under the state’s Delete Act, any business meeting the statutory definition of a data broker must register with the California Privacy Protection Agency every year between January 1 and January 31, reporting on its activities for the previous calendar year, and the agency publishes those submissions as the California Data Broker Registry once the registration window closes[1].
Two things make this more useful than a list of company names. The registration is not just a name: as part of registering, brokers must provide details about the business, including the categories of data they collect and who they sell or share it with, and each registry entry can be expanded to show contact information and consumer-request metrics for that broker[1]. And the full set of submitted responses is downloadable, so you can work through it systematically rather than searching one company at a time[1]. If a people-search site has a listing on you and operates at any scale in California, there is a reasonable chance it is in there with a working contact route attached.
The honest caveat is that this is a registry of businesses that actually registered. A company that meets the definition and has simply not filed will not appear, and a broker operating entirely outside California’s reach may never be required to. Treat it as the longest practical starting list rather than a complete census of the industry.
One Request Instead of Dozens
The same law built a second thing that changes the arithmetic of this page considerably. As of January 1, 2026, California residents can use DROP — the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform — to submit one request to all active data brokers, including those on the registry, asking for deletion of their personal information, rather than filing separately with each one[1]. Data brokers are required to begin processing those requests on August 1, 2026[1]. Within DROP, consumers can also view the list of active data brokers that will be required to process the deletion request, which is a second route to the same broker inventory[1].
Where that leaves this directory: if you are a California resident, the sensible order is DROP first for breadth across the registered field, then the site-specific guides above for the sites you can confirm still show a listing, since those walkthroughs deal with the individual quirks a bulk request does not. If you are not a California resident, DROP is not available to you and the guides plus the general opt-out pattern remain the working method — but the registry itself is readable by anyone, and it is still the fastest way to find out which companies are in this business at all.
References
- California Privacy Protection Agency, “Data Broker Registry.” Registration is required annually between January 1 and January 31; the published registry covers businesses that operated as data brokers in the prior calendar year. cppa.ca.gov
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