Privacy

I'm extremely sceptical about any such service. They require your personal information, so they can prove your identity to delete it elsewhere. I get the argument, but this is giving your stuff to yet another organisation.

Not only that.

Imagine the communication between the service provider and the organisation you want your data removed from.

How do you know that the service provider doesn't provide all your identity data to that organisation to identify you, so they can remove your email address. What's to stop the organisation creating a record in their private database with all your details, when previously they had just your email address?

Just because your data is visible with a Google search, doesn't mean that this represents all records pertaining to you. Adding data and sharing it around just exacerbates the issue.

I stay well clear.

It's tough to get your info truly removed from everywhere after a data breach. I enjoy the peace of mind where if someone searches my name nothing much shows up so I would find that worth the price. Anecdotally I don't think I've gotten as many spam calls but that could just be superstition or timing.

If you're not willing to do it yourself, I've heard great things about the two guys at https://easyoptouts.com/. I've not used them myself so can't vouch, but have been listening to FirewallsDontStopDragonsPodcast - and others. They seem to know what they are doing quite well, also at much cheaper price than others at $19.99 per year.

Consumer Reports wrote an article about this topic as well, and they also pointed out this service as the better one. Can read about that here: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/how-to-delete-your-information-from-people-search-sites-a6926856917/

You can try doing it yourself by using the intel techniques workbook instead. Start with the most bang for your buck removals. https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html

Id say so, nothing's perfect but they are pretty helpful.