How to remove yourself from the internet
In this Internet age, it is impossible to cover your tracks once you immerse yourself in it. The reasons are obvious as you are already a devoted Facebook user and Twitter tweeter, a keen YouTube watcher and also one of those internet addicted crores of guys.
If you want to eliminate yourself despite all these addictions, we have written this post exclusively for you, which will help you to eliminate yourself from the internet using the following guide:
Although it’s relatively easy to press the “exit internet” button, once you press it, it’s impossible to recover your deleted accounts, and you’ll likely regret it later. So be careful.
Start deleting your accounts on all sites:
You must have a clear idea about the places where you registered to get a service or product from any website. Consider following the sites checklist to make the task easier.
1. Social networks like Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+ or maybe Orkut if you are the first to taste the internet soup.
2. Online cloud storage networks like Google Drive, Dropbox and Amazon web services.
3. Shopping sites like Amazon, eBay and local shopping sites.
If you have any problem deleting the accounts, feel free to contact the service provider regarding the issue, and it will not be a cumbersome task as most of these sites have one-click deletion methods to delete your account.
Start looking for your personally identifiable data on the leecher sites:
There are chances that your information has already been leaked or sold by someone else without your consent. So in that case, it becomes tedious to remove and delete them, so follow the steps below:
1. Go to Google.com and search for companies that buy user data for ad promotions.
2. Make a list of sites, and we are sure that sites like people search, white pages have your data.
3. Then find yourself and consider deleting the data by appealing to the site.
4. Chances are you can easily do this as they won’t list you on their website which precludes your right to remain anonymous.
Remove yourself from the web and who.is directories
If you have ever purchased a domain or web hosting from any of the service providers then we are sure your data is publicly accessible from who.is to remove yourself from who.is please follow the guide below
1. Sign in with your domain service provider.
2. Go to your account and check my domains.
3. Opt in for privacy protection if you’re not willing to give up your domain, or delete the account and all your orders will be canceled and boom! Who.is data will disappear.
Remove your personal information from Big G:
Google stores everything, just like your identity. Even after you remove yourself from all social sites and shopping sites, some websites may list you with your SSN number. So in that case, you can file a legal form and ask Google to remove it. Follow the guide below to remove yourself from the Google search index.
1. Visit: support.google.com
2. Request to remove content and in the next few days the search result with your identity will be excluded.
Goodbye to all your email accounts:
Without this, being anonymous is not possible. So one last way to say goodbye to your email accounts. Follow the guide below to delete all your email accounts.
1. Sign in to all of your email service provider accounts.
2. Go to my accounts and settings.
3. From settings, go to privacy settings and choose to delete my account or deactivate my account.
4. Depending on your email service provider, the steps above may vary slightly.
conclusion: Even though you follow all the above process, there may still be traces of you somewhere. Nothing can guarantee your anonymity.
Therefore, you have to be patient in this whole process and make sure that you erase everything leaving nothing behind. You can always use search engines to find your service providers account deletion process.
Since this cannot be done in a single day. It’s obviously going to take a few weeks at least. Be patient, be persistent and goodbye to him friend.