OptOutHQ

How it works

27 opt-outs, one dashboard.

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.

Your first ten minutes

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

1

Create an account

30 sec

Email and password. No social login, no mailbox connection, no card for the free tier.

2

Minimal profile

2 min

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

3

Your unsubscribe alias

0 sec

It's created the first time you open the dashboard. Forward a spam email to it right now and watch the log fill in.

4

Guided quick wins

2 min each

Do Not Call registration, OptOutPrescreen, DMAchoice — each linked straight to the official form and marked done in your tracker the moment you finish.

5

Land on the dashboard

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Progress across all 27 opt-outs, your alias activity, and what's left. Renewal reminders take it from there.

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, and the coupon mailers each run their own form. We put them in order, link straight to each one, and track the decade-long renewal so you never think about it again.

We do automatically

  • Renewal tracking for every registration
  • A reminder email before a registration runs out

We guide, you click

  • DMAchoice registration — the $8, 10-year industry suppression list
  • Catalog Choice, Valpak and Vericast coupon-mail removals
  • Deceased Do Not Contact, for mail still addressed to someone who has died

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

  • Status tracking for each layer in your dashboard

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, and the FTC complaint form for repeat offenders

Data brokers

Renewal: Re-check yearly · some re-list within months

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. No broker offers a public removal API, so automated removals run through a contracted removal partner — and only the fields a given removal needs ever leave our database.

We do automatically

  • Paid plans, at launch: removal requests through a data-removal partner, with re-listing checks
  • A disclosure log for every request: which fields went to which broker, and when

We guide, you click

  • Twelve major people-search sites — Whitepages, Spokeo, BeenVerified, Radaris and more — each linked to its own removal form and tracked

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 has a status

“Pending” is not a status — it's an apology. Each request moves through explicit, timestamped states. When a broker puts you back, the request goes back in the queue instead of quietly staying “done”.

QueuedSubmittedConfirmedRe-listedQueued again

The unhappy path is a feature too: a request that needs your own hand — a confirmation email, a form only you can fill in — 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.

Join the waitlist

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

No spam. The irony would be unbearable.

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