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The Opt-Out Directory
Every U.S. opt-out that matters — 27 of them — on one page. This is the DIY version of everything OptOutHQ tracks for you. Bookmark it, share it, send it to your dad. We mean it: you can do all of this yourself, free.
Links verified June 2026 · re-verified monthly
Junk mail & catalogs
Most promotional mail traces to a few industry suppression lists. Start with DMAchoice; it covers the majority in one shot.
The marketing industry's master suppression list — covers most promotional mail
Per-catalog opt-outs, useful for the mailers DMAchoice misses
The coupon bundle formerly known as RedPlum
Stops marketing mail addressed to someone who has died
Prescreened credit offers
Those “pre-approved” card offers come from the credit bureaus selling your file. One official site turns them off. It looks sketchy. It isn't.
The official joint opt-out for Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Innovis
Robocalls & spam texts
The registry handles legal telemarketers; your carrier's free tools catch a lot of the rest. Layer them.
Federal list legal telemarketers must honor
Forward any spam text to 7726 (SPAM) — routes to your carrier's filtering
Carrier-level scam blocking for AT&T customers
Scam ID, blocking, and a free proxy number
Spam detection and auto-blocking for Verizon lines
Where robocall complaints actually go — enforcement runs on these
People-search & data brokers
The dozen sites below account for most “I googled myself” horror. Each link goes to the broker's own removal flow. Fair warning: many demand email confirmation, some re-list you within months, and there are hundreds more behind these. Paid plans hand them to a removal partner; these twelve you can do today.
Suppression request for the largest people-search site
Search-and-remove flow; part of the PeopleConnect family
One of the most-trafficked free lookup sites
Sister site to TruePeopleSearch — remove separately
Covers Intelius, Instant Checkmate, TruthFinder, US Search
Email & breach hygiene
Two free habits that compound: check what's leaked, and stop feeding new lists.
See which breaches included your email — explains a lot of spam
Gmail's built-in list of senders you can mass-unsubscribe from
Since 2024, bulk senders must honor one-click unsubscribes — the FTC explains
The honest math
Doing this list once is an afternoon. Doing it properly — with confirmation emails, the hundreds of smaller brokers, re-checks when they re-list you, and renewals years from now — is a part-time job. That part-time job is our whole job.
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