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I recently wanted to delete one of my account on a website. And it turned out that it was associated to my gmail account (which I don't use anymore). Is there a way to find all the website accounts that are associated with this mail address? (So I can delete my google account after that).

p.s.: I've already tried this solution but it's surely not everything that I've had connected with my account

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

If I had to do this I would go through my inbox and look for the "verify your email address" emails and compile a list of website and logins to delete. If you don't use a password manager, I don't see other solutions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

I kinda have some OCD, so I used to delete every mails so I don't have that kind of mails right now :/
I didn't thought about using my pswd manager though! (even if I surely didn't use it for all of the websites I think it's gonna help me a lot) Thx!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

There's no way to search to find all of them. Perhaps you could look through leaked password databases like Have I Been Pwned. And as @riccardo said, you can look through your email and password manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Thx I've found some account with haveibeenpwned!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Once you get done with password managers and email, you can try using this list of most popular websites to job your memory

https://asciinema.org/a/9dwog4uqepaghpvyeginwckpn

if you follow the instructions, you can run a comand like

grep '.com$' top-1m.csv | head -n 200

and see a list like this:

https://paste.gg/p/anonymous/b95ebd306aeb4144a3456475c5328dfc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thanks, I'll do it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

You could try waiting for a new change in laws concerning privacy, such as the GDPR and wait for the flood of incoming emails about companies which changed their privacy policy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Do you use a password manager? If so, you could search for your email.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I just did that. ^^