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[–] PlantObserver@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago (18 children)

NordVPN literally will not let me delete my account. My 3 years is over, there is no method to delete when signed in to their site. You have to fill out a form with your payment details and shit to "verify your identity" (who remembers that shit from 3 years ago).

Literally emailed from the email associated with the account, called, logged in, etc. they won't delete it until I send my credit card info in the clear, over insecure email.

FUCK NORDVPN

[–] OADINC@feddit.nl 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If you are in the EU I think you are legally allowed to request they delete all your data. Might be worth it.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They can use nordvpn to change their location to the EU then send the email

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

...that's not how email works

[–] goldisgood4u@lemmings.world 13 points 10 months ago

it is how a joke works, but I gotta say it's not a very good one.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

That actually is how email works, assuming you use a local client vs a web client. The headers will contain the origin IP it was sent from. Easy enough to geo locate and see it's European.

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