this is not really related to scanlines at all, but i wanted to write it down somewhere and didnt know where else to put it lol…
i had the idea today to try reduce my online imprint (well something i have thought about before but never acted on yet… 
) - in particular to close as many accounts as possible that i have opened over the years… and for the ones that are left change the passwords/add to my password manager
(an aside: switching to bitwarden now too → im sure they are fine but seeing the size of “security issues” segment on lastpass’ wikipedia page made me nervous haha )
so i started by trying to find a list of everything i have signed up for. found a few articles online around this - seems like if you mostly use google/facebook authenticate to register this makes things a lot easier since they will have this list available for you. unfortunately for me i never really used those things - opting to use email signups mostly.
there is a service called Deseat.me that reads all your emails and tells you what you signed up for. sounds a little suspect to let some random app read all my emails, also it doesnt seem to work any more anyway. but it did get me thinking … 
since im still using gmail (challenge for another day to find another email provider - recommendations welcome 
) i downloaded a copy of all my emails using takeout.google.com (also found that name much funnier than it probably is 
) - this was a 2.4gb .mbox file.
next i wrote a small python script to collect all the unique domain names of any email iv ever received:
import mailbox
from tqdm import tqdm
from_set = set()
mbox = mailbox.mbox('email_backup.mbox') #sample.mbox , email_backup
for i, message in tqdm(enumerate(mbox)):
try:
from_set.add(message['From'])
except:
print(f'error on item {i}')
domain = {a.split('@')[1].split('>')[0] for a in from_set}
with open("Output.txt", "w") as text_file:
for value in domain:
text_file.write(f'{value}\n')
the output looked like:
alphabethead.bandcamp.com
spektrum.community
eventcinemas.co.nz
ipom.co.nz
harcourts.co.nz
slack.com
stackoverflow.email
kinoheld.com
dpd.de
aegeanair.com
account.pinterest.com
...
there were 878 unique domains in my inbox ! 
i then tried to filter it down a little by modifying the script slightly:
phrases = [
'welcome',
'password',
'username',
'activate',
'confirm',
'subscription',
'unsubscribe',
'log in',
'verify',
'joining',
'account',
'$',
'free trial',
'register',
'forum',
'thread',
'community',
]
...
if any([phrase in message.get_payload() for phrase in phrases]):
from_set.add(message['From'])
...
from all the emails i had that contained any of those phrases i now have 211 unique domains.
i found these sites that provide direct links / info about how to get your accounts removed form various platforms:
- Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
- https://www.accountkiller.com/en/home
- https://www.justdeleteaccount.com/
i guess the next step is to start combing through my 211 domain list by hand and figure out where i have accounts etc. will keep ya posted 
extra stuff:
- if you havnt already definitely try your email on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (and at least change/manage your passwords !)
- since loading my >2gbs of emails into python takes afew minutes each time i used this sample.mbox to test my code on first
anyone else thought about doing this ? or has any other thoughts ?