DeleteMe

The most detailed reporting in the category

The quarterly report names each broker, gives it a removal status and lists which categories of your information were exposed there — addresses, phone, photo, occupation, property value, court records — plus a scan of your Google results. DeleteMe publishes a full twenty-page sample at joindeleteme.com/example-report.pdf, so you can read exactly what you would receive before handing over a card. Almost nobody else in this market lets you do that.

A named human is attached to the account

Every plan includes an assigned privacy advisor, and DeleteMe’s process has staff re-checking sources after a request rather than logging the request and moving on. For brokers with awkward, deliberately obstructive opt-out flows — notarised forms, phone-only removal, identity documents — a person is what gets through, and a purely automated service simply skips them.

It genuinely sells outside the United States

The pricing page quotes UK, Canadian and Australian plans in local currency, and 153 sites on the broker list are marked as international coverage. That is more than Optery or EasyOptOuts offer consumers. Read the caveat in the cons before relying on it.

The refund is tied to the work, not to a countdown

The terms give a full refund if you cancel before your first Privacy Report arrives, and a prorated refund on the remaining term after that. Since the first report lands about a week in, that means you can see what the service actually found for you and still get your money back — a fairer structure than a fixed thirty-day clock that runs whether or not anything has happened.

The 986 figure is not what your plan covers

DeleteMe’s own footnotes tier that list: roughly ninety sites carry the Standard-plan marker, 566 are custom-request only, 153 are international plans and 143 are exclusive to the VIP tier. So the number in the headline is about eleven times the number the $129 plan removes from automatically. Nothing here is concealed — it is all on the page — but the tiering is in footnote symbols beside a very large number, and allaboutcookies.org has criticised exactly that presentation.

The weakest measured result of the services tested

In the only controlled test of this category, Consumer Reports found DeleteMe had removed 13% of listings after a week, 20% after a month and 27% after four months — against 68% for Optery and 65% for EasyOptOuts, the latter at a sixth of DeleteMe’s price. The fieldwork ran in 2023 and DeleteMe has had three years to improve since, so treat it as dated rather than current. It is still the only independent measurement that exists, and DeleteMe came near the bottom of it.

Consumer Reports flagged the privacy policy itself

CR quoted DeleteMe’s policy stating it may sell, transfer or share business assets "including your personal information" in a merger, acquisition, divestiture, bankruptcy or dissolution, and noted that some privacy-minded subscribers might not want their information used that way. It is standard commercial boilerplate. It reads differently in a contract with a company whose entire purpose is stopping your details from circulating.

No monthly billing, no free trial, and cancelling means contacting them

The minimum commitment is a year at $129, paid up front. There is a free exposure scan but no trial of the service itself, and the terms route cancellation through e-mail or a phone number rather than a setting in the account. The international plans are the shakiest part: Comparitech describes that side as still in development with inconsistent results, and DeleteMe’s own international page currently says sign-ups have ended even while the pricing page sells UK, Canadian and Australian plans.