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No magic, no inflated numbers. Here's exactly what we do.

Most removal services are a black box: you pay, a number goes up, and you never learn whether anything actually happened. We do the opposite. Here is every step, in order, and exactly how you can check our work.

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Step 1

First, you create an account and give clear, revocable authorization.

You verify your email, then give us the minimum identity details the brokers on your roster actually need to find your listings, things like your name, city, and state. We never ask for your Social Security number or a government ID, for any reason, at any step.

What you enter is encrypted before it's stored. Before we file a single request, you read and accept our Terms and Privacy documents and give explicit authorization for DBR to file removal requests for you. You can revoke that authorization at any time. Revoking it stops every new request immediately, though it doesn't undo requests already sent.

Prefer to do it yourself?

You don't need an account for this part. For every broker in our research registry, we try to publish a direct opt-out link and plain instructions, so you can remove yourself by hand, free, no card, no signup. Step 2 below is for when you'd rather not do that every few months.

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Step 2 (paid)

On the $29 plan, we file the requests for you, including the parts that fight back.

This is where a lot of services cut corners. We don't fire a blind request and call it done. For each broker on your roster, we take the path that broker actually requires:

  • Simple form or email → we submit it for you.
  • CAPTCHA-protected → we solve it and submit.
  • Email-verification loop → we run the back-and-forth to completion.
  • Multi-step portal → we work through every step.

A note on government-ID verification. We never accept your Social Security number or a government ID, ever, under any circumstance. Brokers that require ID verification are not part of the proof-backed paid roster today: our proof bar requires a receipt we obtain ourselves, and an ID check only you can complete doesn't produce one. If a broker like that is ever added to the roster, the ID step would stay yours to finish on the broker's own secure portal, your dashboard would mark it "Action needed" until you do, and the ID would still never touch our servers, network, or logs.

You authorize each request in advance. We file it using your information, directed by that authorization, as your own request, not as a separate company with its own claim on your data.

Why it's paced over days, not fired all at once

We spread your submissions out on purpose. Brokers send a confirmation when they receive a request, and a large batch at once would flood your inbox and can look like automated abuse to the broker. A slower, human-paced cadence also gets through anti-bot defenses more reliably. You'll see requests move over the following days, not all on day one.

Step 3

Every request shows exactly where it stands. No vanity counter.

This is the core of how we're different. Each request moves along the same three-step spine on its way to a confirmed submission, and we never skip ahead of what we can prove:

  1. Step 1

    Scheduled

    Queued in your plan. Not sent yet.

  2. Step 2

    Submitted

    We sent your request to the broker. You can see exactly what was sent and when.

  3. Step 3

    Submission confirmed

    The broker confirmed it received your request. For web-form submissions, open the broker's final success screenshot in your dashboard. For email-confirmed requests, you'll see a safe summary (proof type and time) instead; we keep the raw email encrypted and don't display it.

"Submission confirmed" is not "removed." The broker has your request. We don't run routine rescans to check whether the listing is actually gone, so we never layer a "removed" or "verified" claim on top of a confirmation.

Two more honest labels can show up if a request doesn't move straight through. If a request can't get through, or a broker refuses it, your dashboard shows Could not complete, and we tell you what happens next. If a step remains that only you can complete, your dashboard shows Action needed. Nothing hidden, and nothing relabeled to look better than it is.

Step 4

A removal isn't one-and-done. Neither is this service.

Here's the part the industry doesn't like to say out loud: for people-search and public-records brokers, a completed opt-out is a voluntary courtesy, not a permanent legal deletion. Those sites rebuild from public records (property filings, voter rolls, and similar sources) that keep updating, so a listing can reappear weeks or months later.

That's why DBR Protection runs a new round of removal requests across your roster every quarter, on a scheduled operating cadence managed by our team. We don't depend on every broker offering a reliable way to check whether a listing came back; we simply re-file on schedule. We never call a removal permanent, because for this class of broker it genuinely isn't. We'd rather tell you than sell you a fantasy.

What we never do

  • Never inflate a number. Our marketing never claims more than our status ledger and roster can prove.
  • Never accept your government ID. Brokers that require ID verification aren't part of our proof-backed roster today. If one ever joins, that step stays yours to complete on the broker's own secure portal; the ID never touches us, either way.
  • Never file a legal complaint on your behalf. If filing a formal complaint (say, with a state Attorney General) is ever the right move for your situation, that's your call and your submission, not ours.
  • Never mail anything to a broker pretending to be you. If a broker's process requires a mailed letter, you send it yourself.
  • Never sell, share, or broker your data. No "anonymized" analytics to third parties either.
  • Never say "removed" or "verified" without the proof to back it up. The dashboard says "Submission confirmed" and shows the evidence behind it. It does not become a claim that a listing was independently checked or permanently deleted.

Don't take our word for it.

Our roster is public: the exact 1 broker we currently file removals for, named, open for anyone to audit. We'd rather show you a smaller, honest, checkable list than a bigger one we can't stand behind.

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No SSN, ever. No government ID, ever. 60-day money-back guarantee.