Proof-First Family Data Removal

Who pays: a household worried about its home address, phone number and relatives showing up on people-search sites. The category has paying customers - Incogni reports 420+ brokers covered and DeleteMe reports more than 100 million listings removed - but the services are expensive and hard to trust. Independent testing confirms the trust gap: Consumer Reports found DeleteMe cleared only about 27% of profiles in four months while manual opt-outs cleared about 70% (via Wikipedia), and CNET's lab benchmark put Optery at 68% and the worst service at 4%. A cheap, monthly, cancel-anytime household plan that shows before-and-after proof and escalates brokers that ignore requests could win share, but this is not guaranteed and it is not proven buyers will switch: Optery already sells automated removal from $39 a year with free monitoring, and the real work is keeping a broker list current and chasing non-compliant brokers (the arXiv study finds many brokers non-responsive or demanding identity checks the CCPA disallows). The specific complaint evidence (still-listed sites, refusal on off-list sites, billing) rests on snippet-only Trustpilot/Reddit/BBB pages that could not be opened (Trustpilot, BBB and CompWorth returned HTTP 403; the Reddit pages returned empty shells) and is therefore unverified; the off-list/custom-removal cap point is the one gap corroborated by an checked source (PCMag: 40 custom removals a year, automated removal from ~135 of 850+ sites). Before building anything: recruit 20 households that already pay DeleteMe, Incogni, Optery or similar; for each, screenshot their own name on five major people-search sites, have them run the opt-outs by hand once, and then quote a flat $6.99-a-month unlimited-household plan with cancel-anytime billing. Proceed only if at least 5 households prepay, if 12 of the 20 still find their own address or phone listed after a paid year, and if most say they would rather pay monthly than annually.