digital_footprint

Guides to cleaning up your digital footprint

Every guide here is written to be finished without buying anything. The manual method comes first, in full. Where doing it by hand stops working, we say so.

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Find your accounts

Work out where you actually have accounts — including the ones you no longer remember making.

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How to find every online account linked to your email address

Five free methods to find every account ever registered with your email address — inbox searches, connected-app lists, password manager exports, username lookups — and how to triage what you find.

11 min read · October 2026

How to find and delete old accounts you forgot you made

Track down dormant accounts using bank statements, app stores and old shipping addresses — then delete them, including when you have lost the password, lost the email, or the company no longer exists.

10 min read · October 2026

Clean up your footprint

Decide what to delete, what to lock down, and in what order, without burning a weekend on it.

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How to delete your digital footprint

A phase-by-phase plan for shrinking your digital footprint: inventory, password reuse, closing dormant accounts, locking down what you keep, cleaning search results and data broker opt-outs.

14 min read · October 2026

Breaches and leaked data

Check whether your credentials are in a known breach, and what to do in the hours after one.

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How to check if your email or password has been leaked

How to check whether your email address or password appears in a known data breach, which checking tools cover what, how to test a password without ever sending it, and how to read the results.

11 min read · October 2026

What to do after a data breach

A triage checklist for the hour after you learn your data was breached, what each exposed data class actually requires, how to freeze your credit, and which follow-up scams to expect.

9 min read · October 2026

Remove info from the web

Get your name, address and phone number off search results and people-search sites.

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How to remove your personal information from Google

The five routes for getting your name, address, phone number or photos out of Google search results — including the Results About You tool, removal request forms and outdated content removal.

12 min read · October 2026

Data broker opt-out list: how to remove yourself from people-search sites

Opt-out routes for the major people-search sites and marketing data brokers, what each one requires, how to do it without handing over more data, and why your profile keeps coming back.

13 min read · October 2026

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Deletion guides for 100 platforms

Already know which account you want gone? Our per-platform guides have the exact deletion page, the steps, how long it takes, what gets deleted and what the platform keeps anyway.

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