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I have Verizon Wireless and have opted out of all of the options on their account privacy page a long time ago (at least a year), but I still show up in these tests.

What recourse do I have?

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A VPN. ISPs and Telcos have made it abundantly clear that without significant legal and financial pressure, they will never respect the slightest modicum of consumer privacy.

And how do I know the VPN is trustworthy?

One option would be paying for a VPS on AWS or Linode or DigitalOcean or Vultr or any number of similar providers - pick the lowest spec machine, raw network throughput is not very hardware dependent - and set the VPN up yourself.

Streisand is pretty useful for this purpose.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

If you go that route, please set up hosts-based adblocking as a FU to the advertising industry.

Why is a random VPS provider's ISP more trustworthy than your own?

Not intrinsically, but the VPS providers ISP has less knowledge about me than my home ISP. And I have a lot more choice between VPS providers than home ISPs.

You could run your own off of a cheap VPS (e.g. DO, Linode, Vultr, etc.), or your home router if it has that ability (e.g. openWRT). This is getting to be ridiculous.

I have long felt that opt outs are not respected.

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