Delete yourself from the Internet with this website

LONDON — If endless cyber-attack scare stories, viral fake news articles, online abuse and the election of Mr Donald Trump have given you the resolve to walk away from the Internet, you are in luck.

Developers in Sweden have created a website that can help you delete your online presence with just a few clicks.

Available at Deseat.me, developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unneback designed the Web deletion site as a place for people to “clean up your Internet presence”.

The service lets you see all of the websites you are signed up to or have accounts for, and asks if you would like to delete them, or unsubscribe. It asks for your email address and password so it can scan for the sites you are signed up to.

The developers said they take the privacy of users seriously, and that the programme runs on the user’s computer rather than their servers.

“So basically, the only thing you’re telling us is what accounts you want to delete. That’s it,” they said.

The website uses Google’s security protocol, which means it does not gain access to users’ log-in information, they added.

Deseat.me is fairly limited at the moment, however. It requires you to have a Google email address that is used for all of your online accounts. So for those ancient Myspace and Bebo accounts that they signed up for with a Hotmail address, they will need to go to the websites themselves and delete their accounts.

It also has not managed to retrieve account deletion information from every service yet, so some appear with a greyed-out delete button. And it may not work for smaller sites.

That said, it does already work with most major websites that users would be likely to have accounts with, such as Facebook, Twitter and Evernote. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH