We give you a list of all the accounts and services you have ever created an account for.
We match them with direct links to their delete page, and instructions on how to delete your account for good.
Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created Deseat.me, which offers a way to erase your entire existence off the internet or just clean up your internet presence.
The service lets you see all of the websites you're signed up to or have accounts for and asks if you'd like to delete them or unsubscribe. It asks for your email address and password so it can scan for the sites you're signed up to.
The website uses Google's security protocol, which means it doesn't gain access to users' log in information. Dahlbo and Unnebäck said they take the privacy of users seriously and that the program runs on the user's computer, rather than their servers.
"So basically the only thing you're telling us is what accounts you want to delete. That's it," they said.
Deseat.me is fairly limited at the moment. It requires users to have a Google email address that is used for all of your online accounts. So for those ancient MySpace and Bebo accounts that you signed up for with a Hotmail address you'll need to go to the websites yourself and delete your account.It also hasn't managed to retrieve account deletion information from every service yet so some appear with a greyed out delete button. And it may never work for smaller sites. That said, it does already work with most major websites that users would be likely to have accounts with, such as Facebook, Twitter and Evernote.
How to delete yourself from the internet
1. Go to deseat.me
2. Sign in with a Google email address
3. Go through the list of websites you're signed up to and decide whether you want to "delete", "add to delete queue" or "keep"
4. 4. If you have more sites associated with other accounts that you'd like to delete, you will need to visit these individually and follow their instructions
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