Well, even if you consider the removal aspect of it useless since you could do it yourself, there is still value in knowing where your data is. Have I Been Pwne

Well, even if you consider the removal aspect of it useless since you could do it yourself, there is still value in knowing where your data is. Have I Been Pwned will tell you about breaches, but not about brokers reselling your data, and they only monitor email addresses. And yes, you could probably go and ask the brokers directly, but that is certainly a lot of time and effort, so paying for it might make sense, assuming you trust the service provider.