Manage Your Digital Footprint | Paperweight
www.paperweight.emailI shared Paperweight earlier here as it was being actively developed and still in beta. After almost 7 months, I’m excited to finally release Paperweight V1 as ready 🗿
Paperweight uses your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data.
Your email history contains traces of most of your online life. Accounts you created, companies you bought from, mailing lists you joined, services you forgot about, breaches, and personal information accumulated over the years.
Paperweight helps to map your footprint, take back control and delete your data. All locally on your computer.
V1 now includes:
- discover accounts, companies and services connected to your email
- find mailing lists and subscriptions
- show known breaches affecting services you use
- find personal information across your email history
- bulk unsubscribe and clean up old email
- create privacy and data deletion requests
- manage multiple email accounts
- connect to AI agents through MCP
It supports Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, custom IMAP and Proton Mail via Bridge.
The important part for me from the beginning was privacy. All your data stays on your computer. There is no Paperweight backend or external services processing your inbox.
It’s also fully open source under MIT.
The free version now includes full-history scanning and discovery, so you can map and inspect your entire footprint. A Pro license makes it actionable. It gives you ease of use, compiled binaries and support and helps support (OSS) development.
Website: https://paperweight.email/
Source: https://github.com/wslyvh/paperweight
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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I see you are using both Cursor and Claude. Two of the six contributors are chatbots.
And you want people to pay you for the privilege of letting this vibecoded garbage scan their inboxes.
I think I will pass.
Like most projects, I use AI for most of my work these days. It’s a tool, which helps me plan, research and code new ideas/features. It makes a lot of my work easier. I share the concerns about yolo/vibe-coded slop, but it’s who wields the hammer that matters. I’ve been a software engineer for 20+ years and you can check from my Github history that I’ve been doing this way before any AI hype. The idea and execution is 100% me. I’m building something I want, use, and care about myself.
I know I won’t change your mind here, and that’s fine. Don’t use it. But you might want to reconsider calling everything that uses AI garbage. By that standard you won’t be able to use any tech at all anymore. Chill out, touch grass and enjoy your day!