Your Google Alerts can be deleted by anyone

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:43:57 +0000

I found out the hard way that my Google Alerts can be deleted by anyone, if they have access to the “Remove” URL.

Here’s how it works: Google will send you e-mail alerts whenever it finds results for any search terms you specify. At the bottom of each message there are 3 links:

“Remove this alert”
“Create another alert”
“Manage your alerts”

The problem is with the first link. I tried it several times, first using Chrome’s incognito mode but then opening the link on a different browser, making sure that I wasn’t signed in to any Google application.

Anyone on Bruno Pedro

Your Google Alerts can be deleted by anyone