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By the way, I can recommend the habit of deleting at least one account per week.

Just look through your password manager, or the list of passwords kept by your browser.

Step 1: check if the site still exists and if you can log in (if not, delete the entry)

Step 2: look around and see what data they kept on you, for who knows how many years. You should now experience an urge for step (3).

Step 3: figure out how to delete the account. Often hidden under privacy or advanced options, more often requires an email to support. If so, set a reminder to followup after a week or so if nothing happened.

Step 4: once the account is gone, delete the entry from your password manager (browser)

Keep this up for a few years and you might get there....
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vmvd 10mo ago

Best in class is IBERIA airline:

If you just want to unsubscribe from their Newsletter, they require a KYC with ID or passport uploaded. Luckily, simplelogin.io exists. That way, I can just turn off or delete this forward email address and delete the account in the password manager.

I will adopt your habit of deleting at least one account per week, and will start with my best-in-class candidate.

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Sjors Provoost 10mo ago

But airlines have a LOT of details about you, which will inevitably leak. Spam is the least of your problems.

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Sjors Provoost 10mo ago

E.g. I recently got an out of the blue password reset email from an airline I flew with a decade ago. That was my prompt to kill that account, it might have been from even before I used a password manager. No idea if someone tried to break into that account. Or if they just did a system wide password reset after they'd been compromised or something, in which case it was too late :-)