They checked over 160 brokers and my info was only on 71 of them, which they opted out of. There are probably more data broker sites who use the data on one of these so the rest of my info got scrubbed that way.
You said I'm not good with searching myself, how do you suggest I look for myself then?
This is kind of an odd line of reasoning to hide behind. One one hand you are willing to pay to have your data removed, on the other hand you don't mind a service actively handing over data because its "already out there"
I'm just saying that worst case scenario, I will repeat to them information they could've easily found online already, so there's not much damage they can do that hasn't already been done.
It would be less of an issue if once your data is removed its permanent but there is nothing stopping brokers from re-adding you, and now your on the radar of new brokers.
Yes, some of these brokers might re-add, this is why I pay for the service, it will check again throughout the year, every 4 months iirc. If you were to do this manually, I don't think you would have the time or patience to opt out of over 160 sites every 4 months.