I’ve been surfing the internet for more than half my life and since then I’ve signed up for hundreds of websites and services, some of which I’ve probably only logged on once. How easily we tend to give our email anywhere and we pay the consequence: with a lot of spam emails and sometimes with something even worse like data leaks or the arrival of dangerous emails that we can potentially fall for. It may be that with our telephone we take a little more precaution, but I admit that I have also given it more than I would like. Don’t know where you gave your email and want to find out?
Sign up with Google is your friend
if you tend to sign in with your Google account to minimize effortwe have good news for you: it will be easier and faster for you to find the accounts you have recently created.
To see what accounts you have created from Google, you just have to go to the Google security settings. Thus, enter your Gmail account and click on your profile. There he touches on ‘Security‘ and scroll down until you see the ‘ sectionThird party applications with access to your account‘. Now click on ‘Manage third party access‘. If you want to revoke access, simply tap on the ‘withdraw access‘.
Same with Twitter and Facebook.
Just as it is possible to create accounts with Google, you can also do it with these two social networks that, if you are a heavy user, you probably usually have open on your devices.
To view your accounts that emerged from Twitter, enter the blue bird’s social network and click on ‘More options‘ > ‘Configuration and support‘ > ‘Settings and privacy‘ > ‘Security and account access‘. In the section of ‘Applications and sessions‘. Once you enter ‘Connected Applications’ you will see the list and you can withdraw access.
On Facebook, click on your profile in the upper left corner and enter ‘Settings and privacy‘ > ‘Setting‘ > ‘Apps and websites‘ . There you can see and edit or delete access.
Look in your inbox for account verification messages
Another way to keep finding records in apps and the web is locate the subscription confirmation email. Rather than scrolling (a mission impossible considering that the account I use the most has been with me for at least 15 years), his thing is to speed up the location by entering search parameters such as “Registration” or “Confirmation” or even “Thank you”.
Using the Gmail advanced search elements this task can be more fruitful, for example, screening if the keywords are in the subject. Another option to work less is to use tools like Mailparser or Parserr.
Use a tool to remove third-party accounts
If you have ever wanted to delete accounts from different websites but you weren’t sure how to do it or you don’t have time to carry out that deep cleaning, you can use tools like JustDelete.Me.
With a very intuitive and visual interface, this free online service allows you to search all your accounts on the Internet in one place. The website displays a grid of sites and takes you directly to the landing page where you can delete your account. There is everything: social networks, streaming, music, platforms to flirt…
To delete your account, just click the ‘Show info‘ and follow the instructions. There are some color codes that help you know how easy (or not) it is to delete an account.
Find all online accounts with your username
The normal thing is that throughout our life on the internet we have thought one or a few aliases or nicks to use in our respective accounts. Serve as examples ‘AupaAthletic85’ or ‘Arwen_85’ from the young times of yours truly.
For this mission, Namechk comes to the rescue, a tool that track domains and usernames available on the internet. If what interests us is the nick, we will only have to type it in the box, pass the captcha and in the lower section you will see in which websites it appears as available or busy. Now you can try to enter with that alias and your passwords.
Check your browser’s saved accounts
When you fill out a form on the Internet, your browser saves the entry, which makes it easier to enter this personal information in subsequent registrations. This too applies to emails and passwords.
Although this is useful from the point of view of convenience to expedite this type of registration and access tasks, it can also be useful to act as a sneak and thus know which accounts are associated. Of course, the usefulness of this trick will depend on how long we have been using the same browser.
In Google Chrome, for example, we can find it in the menu at the top, in ‘preferences‘ >’Autocomplete‘ > ‘password manager‘. If you have a password manager, this process works just as well.
Search The Internet Archives
There is also another option: you have registered on web pages that no longer exist. If you want to rummage through services that are no longer available, you can go to the Wayback Machine to search for activated information.
This Internet Archive service will help you find old websites and accounts that have changed or simply no longer exist.
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