Vanish: disappear from the internet, on a tool that never phones home

There is a particular irony in handing your name, your email, your home address and a list of everywhere you're exposed to a company that promises to make you harder to find. You've just created the exact profile you were trying to erase. Vanish is our answer to that contradiction: a privacy coach that walks you through disappearing from the internet, runs completely on your own device, and has no server to send anything to even if it wanted one.

Disappear in four tiers, not one heroic afternoon

Removing yourself from the internet isn't one task, it's a few hundred small ones, and doing them in a panic is how people give up. Vanish sorts the work into four tiers — Tidy Up, Reduce, Lock Down, Ghost — so you can choose how far you want to go. The first tier is twenty minutes everyone should spend. The last is for people who genuinely need to be hard to track. Each tier is a checklist of concrete, current steps: the data brokers that list you, the opt-out pages that actually work today, the settings that leak the most. You see a score, you see momentum, and you can stop at the tier that fits your life rather than being guilted toward maximalism.

It works on a plane

Vanish has no account, no backend, and no analytics. Everything you do lives only on your device. We didn't write a privacy policy promising not to track you — we built a tool that has nowhere to send tracking data, which you can confirm yourself by turning off your network and watching it keep working. The official opt-out and deletion links open in your own browser when you click them; nothing is fetched in the background. For a tool whose entire job is reducing your exposure, the only honest architecture is one that adds none of its own.

A footprint-removal tool you have to upload your footprint to is selling the disease as the cure. The trustworthy version is the one with no inbox.

Your data is yours, including the backup

Because nothing lives on a server, your progress lives in your browser — and clearing your browser data would erase it. We think that's the correct default for a privacy tool: a clean wipe should leave nothing behind. So instead of quietly stashing a copy somewhere, Vanish lets you save an encrypted backup file that only you hold, locked with a passphrase only you know. The backup of your removal plan is itself not a leak, and restoring it on a new device is a file and a passphrase, not a login. Vanish is live now, free, and works as a normal website or installs to your phone.