That will vary for different services. deseat.me appears s to work by detecting services you are signed up for by scanning your email, then providing you with links to the account deletion pages and help files for each one.
The Terms of Service appear to relate to one of Wilhelm's other ventures and the Privacy Policy is practically devoid of any useful information related to privacy. The idea itself doesn't even seem possible; maybe it's possible to obtain some of the accounts, but all, doubtful.
It should be an opensource project that people can run themselves on node or linux or whatever. They are logging in via Oauth, pulling all emails from gmail, scanning them for some keywords/patterns and then submitting removal requests to those services. It be perfect for a standalone opensource project, all someone needs to run it is their google oauth key from developer dashboard.
Otherwise we have to trust "someone" whoever it is that designed this service to not keep all the emails they pulled out of your account for processing for whatever nefarious purposes one can imagine.
I mean if I ever wanted to mass harvest peoples inboxes then this is exactly how I would approach it and hope most people just click "next" > "next" on the permissions warning that google shows, which most people would.
This site is scary. Think about it. You are giving them all your oauth credentials to just about every service. Your email. Your pictures. Your contacts. Your messages. Your favorites. Your history.
I am sure they are honest however hackers are not. This is a gold mine to be hacked.
Hello Chaps,
Very new to 'Hacking' and all it entails, However for my tuppence worth on this.
I've looked at ALL your posts and agree with you all entirely.
This is 'Quicksand' The concept is great, BUT it is a treasure trove just waiting to be hacked.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 10.0 ms ] threadI like the idea, but I'm sorry, this is one permission I just can't agree to.
Otherwise we have to trust "someone" whoever it is that designed this service to not keep all the emails they pulled out of your account for processing for whatever nefarious purposes one can imagine.
I mean if I ever wanted to mass harvest peoples inboxes then this is exactly how I would approach it and hope most people just click "next" > "next" on the permissions warning that google shows, which most people would.
I am sure they are honest however hackers are not. This is a gold mine to be hacked.
I've looked at ALL your posts and agree with you all entirely. This is 'Quicksand' The concept is great, BUT it is a treasure trove just waiting to be hacked.