FAQ
Questions, answered without the marketing voice.
Including the ones where the answer is “no” and the one where the answer is “go use a competitor”.
Is this actually better than paying DeleteMe?
We cannot honestly claim a better removal rate: UnlistFast has not been independently measured on live broker accounts. It is better suited to someone who wants local custody, source code, per-listing evidence, and explicit relist monitoring. A managed service is better if you want staff, support, and no local setup. Compare those verified product differences, not an invented outcome claim.
Where does my personal information go?
Into a SQLite file on the machine you run it on, plus an evidence/ folder of screenshots. The current agent is dry-only: it does not visit brokers, submit requests, or call Anthropic.UNLISTED_DRIVER=live is rejected at startup, and configuring an Anthropic API key does not activate the dormant extraction adapter. If you open a broker link or send a request yourself, that recipient receives the information you choose to send plus ordinary connection metadata. The marketing-site code has no profile form, account, analytics, tracker, or cookie; it stores only an optional theme choice. A public host may still process ordinary request logs. The Privacy page separates those website and installed-product data flows.
Can UnlistFast make ChatGPT, Claude, or an open-weight model forget me?
No. Removing a public source can reduce material available to future search, retrieval, scraping, and collection. It cannot prove or reverse an earlier crawl, copy, training run, model weight, retrieval index, cache, memory feature, archive, or downstream database. Requests offered by OpenAI, Anthropic, or another provider are separate processes; UnlistFast does not submit them in the current build. The honest goal is to give future systems less public source material to find, not to promise that a model has forgotten you.
Why won't it solve CAPTCHAs?
Because the project does not bypass bot controls, and because a tool that quietly defeats a site’s access controls is not a tool you should trust with your identity documents either. TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch and FamilyTreeNow gate their removals on a CAPTCHA. The agent parks those mapped flows for manual completion and never claims the challenge was solved.
Can it file California's DROP request for me?
UnlistFast does not integrate with or submit to DROP. The official portal lets an eligible person file for themselves and explains when someone may submit for another person with permission. Residency is explicitly declared in Settings; UnlistFast does not infer legal eligibility from an address. Use consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov.
Do I need an Anthropic API key?
No. The current agent only accepts its dry driver, which records what it would do without visiting a broker or model provider. Setting an Anthropic API key alone does nothing: the read-only extraction adapter is dormant while UNLISTED_DRIVER=live remains disabled. The letter templates are deterministic and do not call a model.
How many sites does it cover?
The Coverage screen calculates the current registry, searchable sites, reviewed selector recipes, written routes, and human gates directly from the code. Several brands map to one shared PeopleConnect route, which is counted as one mapped flow without promising current cross-brand coverage.
Source: UnlistFast source — packages/brokers/src/What happens when a broker puts me back?
UnlistFast has separate statuses for a verified removal and a later re-listing. The current dry runner models those checks but does not load broker pages, so its captures are placeholders rather than proof that a listing disappeared or returned. You can record a check you complete and review another request. Removing today’s copy does not stop tomorrow’s acquisition, which is what the separate opt-out-of-sale letter addresses.
Why file as me instead of as an authorized agent?
The broker’s own consumer flow usually asks for the smallest set of facts needed to find a listing and avoids asserting that UnlistFast is your legal agent. An authorized-agent request is generated only as a template and still needs valid signed permission. The project does not claim an unverified success-rate advantage for either channel.
Is it safe to give it my real name and address?
The local vault is restricted to your operating-system account, but it is plain SQLite and is not encrypted by this project. Anyone with access to your account, malware running as you, or a broad backup may read it. The current dry agent does not send it to brokers or Anthropic, and an API key alone does not change that. Information leaves when you use a separate browser, mail tool, or broker form to send it yourself. Read the legal boundaries and Privacy page before using a real identity.
When should I use something else?
If you can’t or don’t want to run software, use a managed service. If you’re in an unsafe situation and need someone to sit through the CAPTCHAs, ID checks and verification calls, a managed service with staff is the right answer and we’d rather say so than take the download. And if you’re a Californian who does nothing else this year, file the DROP request.
Who operates this website?
This checkout presents an open-source project, not a hosted service. It does not yet configure a public operator identity, contact, host, or canonical domain. Those are required launch inputs, not details a privacy product should invent. Everything asserted here about the software’s behaviour is checkable in the source tree.
Still deciding?
The comparison page lists the five rows where other products beat us, and the how-it-works page walks the whole loop from search to screenshot.
Sources
- California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA — right to delete (§ 1798.105), response deadlines (§ 1798.130(a)(2)), authorized agents (11 CCR § 7063). https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
- California's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform launched on 1 Jan 2026. Brokers began processing requests on 1 Aug 2026, with an initial 90-day window and recurring deletion processing every 45 days. https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/
- The claims about what UnlistFast does are checkable against the code: packages/agents/src/*.ts and packages/brokers/src/*.ts.