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Want to delete yourself from the internet, use this website?

Want to delete yourself from the internet, use this website? Captured by : PG2. SECOND LEAD

Delete all your accounts associated with your Gmail address. You operate a number of online accounts in your internet life. As time proceeds, you even forget their names. Sometimes, you feel the need of committing digital suicide i.e. deleting yourself from the internet. For instance, before shifting to a new place, getting a new job where you don’t want people to know about your past, or you just want to cut off from the internet. Perhaps you went on a major job hunting spree and now you don’t even remember half the accounts that you created back then, apart from those that send you pesky emailers. Or, you’ve suddenly realized that you haven’t deleted your accounts off dating sites and you need to do that before you fiancée thinks that you’re secretly putting yourself on the market.

While you’re trying to delete yourself from the internet, you can’t just stop after removing your social media and email accounts. There are a plethora of accounts which you might’ve access during your internet life and don’t even remember their names. These can be various gaming websites or the online forums where you asked those secret questions about your life.

Deseat.me is a simple website that can help you with deleting all such accounts you created. Once you’re on the website, you need to sign-in using your Google account and the website will display a list of all those online accounts which are associated with your Gmail address. Keep in mind the fact that the website doesn’t equip you with a magic wand so that you can vanish all those accounts by waving your hands. After you’re done filtering the accounts you want to delete, you will have to click the delete option for each of the accounts in the delete queue.

Clicking the delete option will lead you to the deletion page for the respective account where you may have to sign-in to that account in order to delete it. It’s very much possible you don’t remember the password as you didn’t access the account in a while. You can try to reset the password.

The whole process is tiresome but it allows you to delete a big trace of yourself from the internet. Remember that nothing comes for free, not even digital suicide. It costs you your precious time. Head down to deseat.me and go wild!

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