There are two things that have gotten worse throughout my life on the internet: one is having different passwords for each different service I’ve subscribed to and the second is knowing where I’ve created a account. To avoid the second, many times I opted for an option: use my Google account to create an account in another third-party service. So much that I was unpleasantly surprised, because the reality is that some of them barely used me and they have my Google account data.
While there’s nothing wrong with using a Google Account instead of credentials, it’s important to be careful and careful about which apps, extensions, tools and websites have this privilege And don’t divulge your data lightly. This is how I saw what I connected and unlinked it (if I deemed it relevant).
The thing is, we stop using these third-party apps and services, but they are still tied to our Google account, which invites potential exposure of our data. Thus, a good security practice is to limit the third-party accounts associated with our Google profile to a minimum and that they are the most used and the most trusted. In all cases, the fewer third-party services you have associated with your Google Account, the greater the security.
How do I know which applications and services are linked to the Google account?
This procedure can be done both from the browser (with your computer) and from iOS or Android, although we will focus on the last option. On an Android mobile, go to ‘settings‘ > ‘Google‘ and once inside, ‘Manage your Google Account‘. Go to the security tab and scroll down until you find ‘Your connections with third-party apps and services‘.
By tapping on each entry in the list, you can see more information about the connection, including the permissions the app has and the Google services it has access to (e.g. Gmail for reading and sending messages). So I went one by one check the list and proceed with those I don’t want access to my account
We can see this with some examples: “Asana” is a trusted application that I use for my work and I want it to remain linked for convenience, “Barakaldo Veterinaria” is a website on which I performed an online purchase once and never used it again (had a good experience) and ‘Atresplayer’ is a trusted service, but I’m no longer a subscriber.
By pressing ‘Delete all connections‘, we dissociate the connection between the application or service and the Google account. If you weren’t clear, in ‘See the details
If I don’t know if I use them a lot or not, I opted for the second. In this case, when I try to register again, it will be necessary to reconnect to the Google account, which I did for example with ‘Atresplayer’, which I can re-subscribe to later.
Be careful because the first option removes the access but not the account: to delete the account it will be necessary to go to the website, application or service in question and do it from there to delete all our data. This solution interested me for applications or services that I have used very little and to which I do not wish to be linked, for example the online pet store.
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