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Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button (thenextweb.com)

Two Swedish developers have created a site offering a way to wipe your entire existence off the internet in a few clicks. schwit1 quotes The Next Web: When logging into the website with a Google account it scans for apps and services you've created an account for, and creates a list of them with easy delete links. Every account it finds gets paired with an easy delete link pointing to the unsubscribe page for that service. In a few clicks you're freed from it, and depending on how long you need to work through the entire list, you can be account-less within the hour.
I'm a little uncomfortable giving a stranger's web site access to my personal information - even if it is for the purpose of deleting it altogether. But the original submission ends with an interesting question. "Can we get this for government databases too?"

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  1. A great big "Meh!" by marcle · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tried it, but it only finds Google-related accounts. Obviously, since your Google email is all it has to go by.
    There's a ton of accounts and subscriptions that I've got that this app knows nothing about.
    Why do they assume that all my accounts are necessarily linked to Google?

    Less than useful, unless you view the entire internet thru Google, in which case you've got worse problems than a few excessive accounts.