Aaron Marsden
Behind OptOut Shelf
About
Self-employed digital marketing consultant, Austin, 41. My day job involves helping small businesses think about how they show up in search results. What this site covers is what happens when those same searches surface information about a private person who never hired anyone to manage it.
The office is a converted spare bedroom in a 1990s brick ranch house in South Austin. There's a sit-stand desk, dual 27-inch monitors on a swing arm, and a whiteboard on the door where broker status gets tracked with colored dot markers. A printed broker-reappearance timeline is taped to the wall beside the desk. The Yubikey lives clipped by lanyard to the left monitor bezel when I'm at the desk. My partner has opinions about the Yubikey on the keychain. The timeline has gone uncontested.
Over the past two years I've paid for and tested DeleteMe, Incogni, the full Proton bundle, RoboForm, and EaseUS BitWiper, all on my own name and address in Austin. I've manually submitted opt-out requests to more than 50 individual brokers and tracked every result in a spreadsheet: confirmation dates, re-listing dates, and which services' monthly reports described work that hadn't happened when I verified against a live search. A row turning green at 90 days means a broker has stayed suppressed past the re-check threshold. Those are the wins.
The reviews here are built on that record. My background is digital marketing, not cybersecurity or privacy law. Someone who paid for the services, checked the results, and kept detailed notes.
Posts by Aaron Marsden
- How to Securely Wipe SSD Drives for Better Data Privacy
- Best Proton Mail Features for Consultants Using Custom Domains
- How to Erase Client Files From Old External Drives Permanently
- Best Services to Remove Personal Info From Spokeo and Whitepages
- Best VPN Services for Consultants Working in Public Coffee Shops
- How Long Does It Take to Remove Personal Information From Google?
- How to Secure Online Accounts After Your Data is Leaked Online
- How to Check if Your Personal Data is on the Dark Web for Free
- Best Software to Wipe Client Data From Old Work Laptops
- Top Services to Remove Your Name From Background Check Sites
- Data Broker Reference List: The Major People-Search Sites and What They List
- Best Encrypted Email and VPN Bundles for Professional Privacy
- Stop Data Brokers From Selling Your Personal Information Online
- Best Encrypted Cloud Storage for Self Employed Consultants
- How to Use DeleteMe to Remove Your Austin Business Address From Google
- Proton Mail Features for Self Employed Consultants Seeking Privacy
- Best Password Managers for Austin Small Business Owners After a Breach
- Why Personal Data Keeps Reappearing on Broker Sites After a Removal
- Best Software to Wipe Your Computer Hard Drive Before Recycling
- Best Password Managers for People Switching From Chrome and Safari
- Best Personal Data Removal Services to Protect Your Family Members
- Best Ways to Securely Erase External Hard Drives and USB Sticks
- Why RoboForm With a Yubikey is the Best Secure Password Setup
- Is Incogni Worth the Money for Automatic Data Broker Removal? (2026 Update)
- Why RoboForm is Still the Best Password Manager for Small Business Owners in 2026
- Best Proton Mail and VPN Bundle Features for Families: A 2026 Update
- How to Remove Your Texas Home Address From People Search Sites (2026 Update)
- Manual Data Broker Opt Out vs Paid Services: What Saves Time in 2026?
- Using EaseUS BitWiper to Securely Erase Your Hard Drive Before Selling (2026 Update)
- DeleteMe vs Incogni: Which Data Removal Service Actually Works Better? (2026 Update)
- I Googled My Own Name and Panicked: My First Month Trying DeleteMe
Disclosure
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