Removal Guides
Free, step-by-step, no email required. Everything here is drawn from The Ghost Protocol — published openly because the value of the book is the order and the method, not the individual links.
How to remove yourself from WhitePages
The suppression process, the phone-verification step people quietly fail, and why one removal usually isn't enough.
6 min readRemoval guideSpokeo opt-out — and the profiles you'll miss
Spokeo indexes by email and phone as well as name, so most people leave three profiles live. Plus the confirmation email that kills most requests.
6 min readRemoval guideHow to remove your MyLife profile
No reliable one-click removal, an invented "Reputation Score", and a support process built to be abandoned. Use three channels at once.
7 min readHow it worksWhy data brokers keep adding you back
Suppression lists match on exact values, and brokers refresh quarterly. Understand the mechanism and staying off costs ten minutes a month.
8 min readRemoval guideHow to blur your house on Google Street View
Free, permanent, about four minutes. Plus Apple Maps, and the interior photos on Zillow that are arguably the bigger problem.
6 min readComparisonDeleteMe review — worth $129 a year?
What it actually does, the ten-year cost, the four things it doesn't cover, and the cases where paying is genuinely the right call.
8 min readComparisonIncogni review — cheaper, but what do you lose?
Automated legal requests at about half DeleteMe's price. Where that works, where it runs out, and who it suits.
7 min readHead to headDeleteMe vs Incogni vs doing it yourself
Side by side on price, method, coverage and the four blind spots both share — plus the option neither will mention.
6 min readComparisonIs a data removal subscription worth it?
An honest account of what DeleteMe and Incogni actually do for $100–200 a year, the four things no service covers, and when subscribing is the right call.
9 min readThese guides are individual chapters. The Ghost Protocol is the 30-day route through all 70 destinations, with printable trackers, copy-paste request templates and the maintenance routine.