How to delete your personal info from the internet (while saving money)

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Spring cleaning season is here, which includes tidying up your online trail. While it's impossible to prevent all of your data from being harvested, traded, and sold by third parties, there are ways to reduce your risk.

Data removal services like Optery, Delete Me, and more are likely the simplest and quickest way to cut down what can be a time-consuming and confusing process.

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And Spring savings events, like Amazon's Big Spring Sale, have ushered in serious savings across the market, and services and software haven't been left behind. These are my favorite spring deals on data removal services that can help your online footprint shrink and keep your personal information more secure.

The best data removal service deals

Incogni is ZDNET's choice for best overall data removal service. Owned by VPN provider Surfshark, Incogni tackles data removal and brokers on your behalf with a heavy focus on automation and enforces these requests using applicable data protection laws. Its service has amassed many positive customer reviews. You pay the equivalent of $7.99 per month with an annual plan during Incogni's current sale.

During the 2026 tax season, you can get 58% off annual plans using the code ZDNET at checkout.

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Optery is one of ZDNET's recommendations for best data removal services, and it does in fact delete my personal information from the internet for me. It's 20% off right now with the code SPRING2026 at checkout.

Optery is a data removal service that helps you remove and maintain the removal of your information from the internet. The service scans and searches for your information online, helps you identify where it's been exposed, and then offers a way to contact data brokers to have these profiles removed. I've been using it for a few months now and it's been one of my best investments of 2026 so far.

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