The File Already Exists
Someone who has never met you can pull your home address, your phone number, and your relatives without following you for a single minute. Data-broker sites assemble that file from public records and sell it to anyone, searchable by name. It's legal, automated, and it refreshes itself.
So the honest goal isn't invisibility. You can't erase yourself. You can stop being the cheapest file to pull.
The Working List
Search yourself first
Your name in a private browser window. What comes back is your target list. Opt out of those people-search sites yourself. In Consumer Reports' test, manual opt-outs beat every paid removal service: about 70% of listings gone within a week.
Kill the live location
Post after, not during. You know this rule. And audit what your fitness apps share: a public running route is your pattern of life, on a map, for free.
Mind the frame
No house numbers, street signs, or plates in what you post. The picture leaks the address even when the caption doesn't.
One expectation to set now: brokers repopulate. Records change, files rebuild, listings come back. Removal is maintenance, not a one-time fix. Put the opt-outs on a calendar and treat it like changing smoke-alarm batteries.
You can't be invisible, and you don't need to be. Make yourself expensive to research, and out of date.