Remove yourself from the internet

April 14, 2025

By Kim Komando

Michelle in Phoenix asks: “Hello, Kim, do you have recommendations for services that remove your phone number, home address off Google? My son is getting extremely harassing texts and vandalism at his home. We want to remove all our phone numbers and addresses from public viewing.”

Michelle, you’re not alone. 

Googling yourself used to be fun. Now it’s like opening the front door and finding your Social Security number spray-painted on your garage.

It’s not just creepy, it’s a big-time privacy and safety risk.

Google finally lets you do something about it. 

You can request the removal of personal info from search results. It won’t erase the data from the internet entirely, but it can stop it from popping up on Google.

🔎 How to find out what’s out there

Start by Googling your full name, phone number and home address in quotes. For example: “Johnny Hottie” “555-555-5555” “123 Main Street”

If anything pops up, take a screenshot or jot down the URL. You need that next.

✏️ Request removal directly from Google

Visit Google’s “Remove Personal Info” tool and fill out a form. Choose the type of info you want removed, paste the link and submit it.

You can also do this directly from search results. Click the three dots next to a link and choose “Remove result.” Hopefully, the mighty Google will get rid of it.

The problem: Even if they do, Google is just one place your data shows up.

🕵🏼‍♀️ What about all the people-search sites?

They scrape your name, age, relatives, property value and more to sell it to anyone. That’s where Incogni comes in. They go after the shady data brokers and demand your info be removed.

Incogni eliminated records tied to my name from over 1,400 data brokers and people-search sites. The spam texts and calls dropped like magic.

But they’ve taken things to the next level.

👊 Found your info on a site? Just send the link

Incogni lets you now paste in the URL of the page with your info. Real humans then get to work for real results to get it removed. 

Thankfully, Incogni’s plans are super reasonable. Plans start as low as $6.63 per month. Every plan lets you remove three phone numbers, three emails and three mailing addresses from the data brokers. The Family and Friends plans let you add up to four loved ones and scrub their info, too.

✅ Click here now to get 60% off when you sign up. You’ll be so glad you did! I get no kickbacks or residuals if you buy. I use it, it helped me and it will help you, too.