Opt-Out Desk

Live site: https://patrickomatic.github.io/opt-out/

Opt-Out Desk is a privacy workflow tool for manually removing your contact details from people-search and background-check sites. It helps you:

• track opt-out steps for each broker
• keep private notes locally in the browser
• generate discovery searches for phone, address, and name variants
• export progress as JSON
• recheck brokers later when listings reappear

It does not submit opt-out forms for you, bypass captchas, or handle email or phone verification. The point is to keep the process organized and less tedious.

What’s Included

• Workflow tracking for common data-broker removal flows
• Discovery search generation for finding additional listings
• Local-only storage in browser localStorage
• Export/reset controls
• Static hosting through GitHub Pages

Development

This repository uses Rust, Leptos, and Trunk.

The repo is configured for wasm32-unknown-unknown via rust-toolchain.toml so cargo build expects the rustup-managed toolchain and target to be available.

If your shell picks up Homebrew Rust first, put ~/.cargo/bin ahead of /usr/local/bin so rustup's cargo and rustc are used:

export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
which cargo rustc
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Useful commands:

cargo build
cargo clippy -- -D warnings -D clippy::pedantic
trunk serve
trunk build --release --public-url /opt-out/

Deployment

Pushes to main run CI and publish the site with GitHub Pages Actions. GitHub Pages must be enabled once in the repository settings with Source: GitHub Actions.

File Map

• src/main.rs: Leptos client app, static broker catalog, local-storage state, workflow views, discovery helpers, export/reset actions, and search URL generation.
• style.css: Global CSS variables, layout, responsive rules, forms, panels, broker cards, status chips, and action buttons.
• index.html: Trunk entry document that links the CSS and Rust/WASM app.
• Cargo.toml: Rust package metadata and client-side dependencies.
• Cargo.lock: Locked dependency graph for reproducible builds.
• Trunk.toml: Trunk build configuration for the static output directory and default relative public URL.
• rust-toolchain.toml: Rust toolchain, WASM target, rustfmt, and clippy components expected by local development and CI.
• .github/workflows/ci.yml: CI workflow for formatting, clippy, and Trunk build checks on pushes and pull requests.
• .github/workflows/deploy.yml: GitHub Pages workflow that builds the release app with /opt-out/ as the public URL and deploys dist.
• .gitignore: Ignores local Rust and Trunk build outputs.
• AGENTS.md: Codex-facing repository guidance for future agent sessions.
• CLAUDE.md: Claude Code-facing copy of the same repository guidance.
• LICENSE: Project license.

Generated local directories:

• dist/: Trunk build output for the static site; ignored by Git.
• target/: Cargo build output; ignored by Git.