I paid for a year of an incogni family plan and wiped my whole household off the internet. Within a month google searching largely stopped coming up with hits other than accounts I personally created. I've been quite happy with the service, It took no effort just $100.

These services aren't super expensive and they tend to do a pretty efficient job. I had a weirdo trying to doxx me for a year and was just pulling outdated info off broker sites, it's a pain in the ass and clearing out that into all at once helps ease the mind.

Not completely relevant, but the foss website/extension justdeleteme is a good resource for going through and "deleting" accounts.

Every now and then I go through my bitwarden and delete accounts I don't need anymore, contributing to the justdeleteme site if it's not on there.

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.

Nope. Dont do it. Google yourself, search your email inbox, start doing it by hand. It will take months. Why not do it through a company? Here: https://youtu.be/iX3JT6q3AxA

I highly recommend Optery. There are far more information databases than those found on Google.