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Data Removal Services or just Google myself and remove my own data
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this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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I think easyoptouts is worth it ($20/quarter). It has like a 70% success rate which will decrease a ton of grunt work for you. There are a lot (well north of 150+) of these data sites to try and manage.
Just because you remove data once does not mean it won't be put back on the site later which means you need to make a habit of constantly rechecking the sites if you chose to do it yourself.
I would also recommend signing up to have Google alert you when your name comes up in searches. This will make it easy to remove them from Google and let you know what you still have to remove.