Using Autopilot

Serus Autopilot keeps looking for new exposures and files removal requests for you, so you don't have to track down each listing by hand. You set it once, and when a listing reappears later, Serus files the request again.

What Autopilot does

Autopilot handles the repetitive part of keeping your data offline. Serus keeps finding new listings and filing removals in the background. Many low-friction data brokers clear within 24 to 72 hours, while harder ones can take 30 days or more. Monitoring keeps running the whole time, so a listing that comes back gets a new request.

Autopilot is part of the Serus Protection plan.

How to choose what Autopilot removes

When you turn on Autopilot, you pick what it should work on:

• Data brokers only: sites that collect, combine and sell personal data. (California alone keeps a public registry of data brokers.)
• Surface web results only: public search results that show your information.
• Everything: all exposures Serus finds, across both categories.

Not sure which to pick? Our guide to the different types of exposure explains what falls into each one.

How to track your removal requests

Once Autopilot is on, the Requests section shows the status of every removal. For each request you can see:

• The date it was submitted
• When it was processed
• When it was completed

That way you can check progress yourself instead of wondering whether anything happened.

If you'd rather do some of it by hand first, our guide on how to delete yourself from the internet covers the manual route.

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