You Are Not Going to Finish This
You are not going to finish this. That is not pessimism, it is the measurement. What you cleared this month decays, and the study that measured removal also measured how fast, which means you do not have to guess at the interval.
In the Consumer Reports study, sample 32 volunteers (n=32), researchers found 379 listings in all, and 150 ever came off. Of those, 119, almost 80 percent, came off within one week. 14 more within a month. 17 more by four months. That is the whole curve.
And in the manual arm, 4 participants and 47 profiles, nothing at all came off between month one and month four. So the operational read is blunt. A result arrives in week one, or it does not arrive. Waiting quietly for month three is not a plan.
The Interval Comes From the Data
That sets your re-check interval, and it comes from the data rather than from somebody's habit. Check about a week after you file, because that is when the result exists if it is going to exist. Then re-check on a cycle, because the other side is running one too.
California requires registered brokers to check its deletion platform at least once every 45 days. Read that as Scopos does: a signal of how fast these inventories turn over. Brokers refresh on their own cycle, so any scrub is partial and leaky and starts going stale the moment it is done.
Check at One Week
Re-Check on a Cycle
Compare the Count
A Direction, Not a Destination
So keep your Lesson 2 checklist and compare the count every cycle, or you are guessing about your own progress. And one boundary worth naming. Becoming a Hard Target owns how you carry yourself and how you move. This course owns what is published about you. Run both.
So no, you are not off the radar. Off the radar is a direction, not a destination. What you have is a smaller count than last quarter, and a cycle that keeps it that way. Exposure is a decision, not a default.
Put it on the calendar the same day you file: one entry a week out to check the result, and one recurring entry each quarter to re-run the named list and compare the count against your Lesson 2 checklist. That is the document you built in Lesson 2: the 13 named people-search sites in a column, what each one showed when you ran your own name and your address against it, and the date you looked. Compare this quarter's column against that one and the progress is a number instead of a feeling. Then take the final check on the course page.