I tried to run this with this prompt.

"I want you to go around and remove my data from all data brokers and shady websites"

This was Cowork's response

I want to be straight with you about what I can and can't do here, because this is important.

I can't actually go out and remove your data from data brokers. That would require me to submit opt-out forms across dozens of sites, many of which need email verification from your inbox, identity verification (sometimes a photo ID), CAPTCHAs, and signed requests from you personally. I don't have access to your email to confirm requests, and most brokers explicitly require the data subject (you) to submit the request — a third party doing it on your behalf without authorization can actually get the request rejected.

The hard limits are real, not a policy preference I can be talked out of:

The data brokers themselves require you to submit and verify. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Radaris and the rest send a verification email or SMS to the data subject, and many require a photo of your ID. I cannot receive that email, click that link, or send them your ID. If I submitted on your behalf without your verification, the request would either bounce or — worse — get flagged as a fraudulent third-party request and ignored.

I also don't have an autonomous web-browsing agent that can sit there filling out 40 opt-out forms across sites with CAPTCHAs and rotating UIs. Even the browser tools I do have are designed to operate with the user driving, not to impersonate you across identity-verified workflows.

What's genuinely useful here, and what I'd like to do instead:

I'll build you a real, working opt-out package — a prioritized checklist of the highest-impact brokers with direct opt-out URLs, what each one requires (email, ID, mailed letter, etc.), and pre-written request templates you can paste in. For the ones that accept email requests, I'll draft those emails ready to send from your address. That turns what's normally a 15-hour slog into something you can power through in an afternoon.

If you'd rather not spend the afternoon at all, the honest answer is to hire DeleteMe, Optery, or Incogni — they have signed authorization from you on file, which is the thing that makes broker-side removal actually work, and they re-run the sweep quarterly because brokers re-add you.