No service can delete your digital footprint. The honest numbers, from independent testing rather than marketing copy, run from 27 to 70 percent — and even that requires checking back every few months as data brokers refresh their databases

Data-removal services sell a version of privacy that sounds absolute: pay a subscription, and your name disappears from the internet’s back-alley data brokers. None of the services that actually do this work will put a number that high on it publicly. Under the state’s Delete Act, nearly 600 registered data brokers were required to begin honoring bulk deletion requests starting August 1, 2026, through a state-run mechanism called DROP. That’s the same model the private removal services use, just enforced by state law rather than sold as a subscription. A data broker can be forced to stop reselling a scrape of that information.