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Fast/automated check and removal of Accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by GloveNinja@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm wondering if there's a service out there that can scrape sites to determine if you have an account tied to your email(s) and subsequently delete them. The deletion would be amazing, but I'd settle for something that just confirms if there are sites out there I never tracked my login against.

I'm trying to get all my accounts under control. Enable MFA, rotate passwords, remove saved details like payments and addresses, etc...

Any advice is appreciated!

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[–] goddard_guryon@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine?

[–] GloveNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this legitimate? It seems odd to grant a company access to my emails. I assumed it would scrape the internet to find these details. It won't find much in my inbox as I try to keep it very clean.

Also, it's a paid service?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you're looking for does not exist. Sorry.

[–] GloveNinja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it doesn't exist that's okay, figured it was good to check in with the community 👍

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I'm honestly curious as to how that would work, so I guess just about how you though this would go.

[–] goddard_guryon@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I tried it once a few years ago and it seemed to work fine enough for me. I can't say how exactly it works now, but there is (or at least used to be) a free plan with limited functionality, so I figured it might be interesting to you