It is unlikely that any youngster or grown-up hasn’t got a single account on any website, whether social or individual. With subscriptions, newsletters, feeds, offers and several other emails piling up each and every inbox, such as on email, Pinterest, Stumbleupon, Facebook, Twitter and many others, it is likely that there comes a time when one wants a break. If not that, people may want to be deleted from various accounts and for that they usually have to remove themselves one by one from each website, which is time consuming.

Here is a magic wand that does it for you, www.deseat.me — a website for all those who want to remove their online footprint in seconds. So how does it work?

Users have to sign in with their Google account details, then the website searches all the related or different online accounts that they have (linked to Google). The website uses Google’s OAuth protocol to access all the data available before providing the customer with delete links for each of their accounts so they can get rid of all their online activity.

OAuth is an open standard for authorisation, normally used as a way for internet users to log into third-party websites using their Microsoft, Google, Facebook (and so on) accounts without exposing their password.

Don’t worry, it doesn’t delete every­thing at once, users choose which ones they want to delete and which ones they want to keep from the list of their accounts. So isn’t it easy?

Deseat.me, however, only finds accounts that are linked to Google, which means if the user has created accounts using other email addresses, the magic will not work.

To take some online break visit www.deseat.me

Published in Dawn, Young World, December 17th, 2016