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I authorized access to my account by an application that turned out to not work. Now I want to remove the authorization in case it was malicious. How could I do this?

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  1. Go to your account settings.
  2. Click on Security on the left, and then Edit next to "Authorizing applications and sites"
  3. Revoke the site you wish to remove.
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  • I went to my account settings, but there was no link like that there. Clicking the URL you provided directly says that nothing's authenticated. I guess it must have failed to authenticate too.
    – MiffTheFox
    Aug 2, 2010 at 3:02
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    Some things have moved around a bit on the Google account settings page. Now you click Security on the left, then scroll down to "Connected applications and site", and click the Manage Access button.
    – BrianC
    Mar 27, 2013 at 21:34
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    correction: #2 is now under Security > Account permissions > View All
    – user63627
    Mar 18, 2014 at 16:48
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Google keeps changing their interface. As of November 2015, the steps are:

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