Cleaning up personal information on internet is going nowhere

it's slow because the brokers refill from each other. the order that worked for me: opt out of the biggest people-search sites first (spokeo, whitepages, beenverified, radaris, that lot), each has a removal form, then put in the google results about you request so the search results drop, then set a reminder for three months and check again because they do come back. a paid removal service just does the same forms on a schedule for you, worth it if you have a lot of listings.