You don’t know how to delete an account on an online service? Use a specialized directory which will give you the procedure to follow and the page to consult to delete the data you provided when registering.
Many online services that require you to register in order to use them. A name, an email address, sometimes a telephone number or a postal address. When registering, you usually do not pay attention to the information you knowingly provide. And if the service doesn’t quite meet your expectations, too bad, you move on. Except that the information you have entrusted to it remains hosted on its servers. And, the service can use them for advertising purposes or resell them. Better to delete your account. Alas, it is not always obvious. Many platforms – even well-known ones – hide the unsubscribe procedure in the depths of their site, making it extremely complicated or even impossible for some.
Also, rather than spending very long minutes looking for how to unsubscribe and delete your data, you can rely on services that make it easier for you. Two of them caught our attention: Just Delete Me and Just Delete Account. Free, they both adopt the same principle. They come in the form of a directory comprising more than a thousand websites or Web services. For each of them, the difficulty of unsubscribing is mentioned according to four levels: easy, medium, difficult and impossible. Above all, they provide the direct link to the page or form to unsubscribe. Practice. Do not hesitate to consult these two services. They are complementary. Despite a large common database, both also offer references of original sites or services.
How do I find the procedure for unsubscribing from a site or an online service?
Signed up for a website or web service you no longer use? Here’s how to find the page or the dedicated form to unsubscribe and delete your details… if possible. For the example, we will use the Just Delete Me service. Just Delete Account works the same way.
► Go to the website Just Delete Me. The home page looks like a long list of web services arranged in alphabetical order. Each is flanked by a color that represents the complexity of the unsubscribe process. Green: easy; yellow: medium; red: difficult; black: impossible (yes, some web services do not allow you to unsubscribe such as Worpress.org or Wikipedia for example).
► No need to scroll through this list with the force of the mouse wheel to find the site or Web service you are looking for. Just type their name in the search field above the listing. Results are displayed as you type.
► Once the service has been found, click on the link See info. A description of the procedure is given. It can be written in French or in English, depending on the site concerned.
► Now click on link icon to the right of the service name. You are then immediately redirected to the page dedicated to unsubscribing (the Dashlane password manager service, in our example). All you have to do is follow the procedure.
