OptOutHQ

How it works

Eleven websites, one switch.

America's opt-out system is real — it's just scattered across registries nobody has heard of and brokers who profit from the friction. Here's exactly what we automate, what we guide, and why the difference matters.

Minute one to minute seven

The target: your first completed opt-out before the kettle boils.

1

Sign up

30 sec

Email magic link — no password to invent, no social login watching.

2

Tell us what's bothering you most

10 sec

Junk mail? Robocalls? Your address on people-search sites? Your answer orders the checklist — loudest problem first.

3

Minimal profile

2 min

Name, current address, year of birth. Every field has a “why we ask” note inline. Fields we don't strictly need don't exist.

4

Instant win

0 sec

Your broker scan is already queued and your unsubscribe alias already exists. Forward a spam email right now and watch the dashboard react.

5

Guided quick wins

2 min each

Do Not Call registration, OptOutPrescreen, DMAchoice — deep-linked, prefilled where allowed, tracked the moment you click done.

6

Land on the dashboard

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Progress ring at 2 of 9. The rest is our job.

The five modules

We automate everything the law allows and guide the two-minute steps it doesn't. Over-automating regulated opt-outs is how you end up touching SSNs. We don't.

Junk mail

Renewal: DMAchoice: 10 years · catalogs: per-mailer

DMAchoice requires your own account and payment by design. We sequence it, prefill what's allowed, and track the decade-long renewal so you never think about it again.

We do automatically

  • Catalog and coupon-bundle suppressions (Vericast, Valpak, Catalog Choice)
  • Previous-resident and deceased-relative mail handling
  • Renewal tracking for every registration

We guide, you click

  • DMAchoice registration — the $8/10-year industry suppression list, deep-linked with a prefilled form

Credit offers

Renewal: 5 years online · permanent by mail

Prescreened offers come from the credit bureaus selling your file. Opting out requires an SSN — which is exactly why we refuse to touch it. Guided handoff, two minutes, done for five years (or permanently by mail — we explain both).

We do automatically

  • Renewal reminders, set automatically
  • Status tracking in your dashboard

We guide, you click

  • OptOutPrescreen — the official credit-bureau opt-out. You enter your SSN on their site, never ours

Robocalls

Renewal: DNC: permanent · carrier apps: one-time setup

The registry stops legal telemarketing; carrier tools catch much of the rest. Nobody can promise zero scam calls — so we promise the correct full stack instead, and we track that each layer is actually on.

We do automatically

  • Registration confirmation tracking
  • FCC complaint shortcuts, prefilled

We guide, you click

  • DoNotCall.gov registration (free, doesn't expire)
  • Carrier tools configured right: AT&T ActiveArmor, T-Mobile Scam Shield, Verizon Call Filter
  • Spam-text reporting via 7726

Data brokers

Renewal: Continuous — re-monitoring is the product

This is the category where automation earns its keep: hundreds of near-identical removal flows, brokers that quietly re-list you, and zero accountability without receipts. We keep the receipts.

We do automatically

  • Removal requests across 600+ brokers and people-search sites
  • Evidence capture: request, response, screenshot — per broker
  • Re-scans every 90 days, auto re-removal when you resurface

We guide, you click

  • The rare broker that demands notarized mail or a phone call — queued with instructions

Spam email

Renewal: Instant per sender · alias is yours forever

Forward spam to your personal alias; we do the rest. No OAuth, no inbox scopes, no Gmail security assessment — because we never connect to your mailbox at all.

We do automatically

  • One-click unsubscribes via the RFC 8058 List-Unsubscribe header
  • Fallback to mailto: unsubscribe from your alias
  • Sender history with verified outcomes

We guide, you click

  • Senders with no compliant unsubscribe path get surfaced for one manual click

Every opt-out is a little state machine

“Pending” is not a status — it's an apology. Each request moves through explicit states, timestamped, with evidence attached at confirmation and an alarm set before expiry.

QueuedSubmittedConfirmedExpiringRenewed

The unhappy path is a feature too: a broker that stalls flips to Action needed in your queue with exactly one next step attached.

Live anatomy of an unsubscribe

Watch a spam email die

This is the entire email feature. Note what's missing: any access to your inbox.

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Last chance! 50% off ends TONIGHT

DealBlaster <deals@dealblaster.example> — to you, and 49,999 others

Subscribed
you@unsub.optouthq.com

# forward any spam to your alias and this happens automatically

Senders have been legally required to honor one-click unsubscribes since 2024. Almost nobody uses the header — it's invisible in every mail client. We built a product on it.

Seven minutes from now, something is already off.

Get early access when we open the doors — and your personal unsubscribe address on day one.

No spam. The irony would be unbearable.

Founding members get Pro for $59/yr, locked for life — first 200 only, when we launch.