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
• GoatCounter page-view analytics

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 --public-url /opt-out/
trunk build --release --public-url /opt-out/

The app uses Leptos Router with /opt-out as its base path, matching the GitHub Pages project URL. Open local development builds at http://localhost:8080/opt-out/.

Analytics

The site uses GoatCounter for lightweight page-view analytics. The tracking script is in index.html and points to:

https://opt-out-desk.goatcounter.com/count

Create a free GoatCounter site using opt-out-desk as the site code. If that code is unavailable, update the data-goatcounter URL in index.html to match the code you register.

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: Module wiring and app mount point.
• src/app.rs: Leptos components, layout, and route-driven page rendering.
• src/catalog.rs: Static broker catalog and workflow steps.
• src/model.rs: Shared state and catalog data types.
• src/search.rs: Search URL generation, discovery queries, and support template helpers.
• src/status.rs: Broker status, progress, and discovery-state helpers.
• src/storage.rs: Local-storage persistence, export/reset actions, clipboard helpers, and broker-card scrolling.
• 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.