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The challenge of deleting old online accounts | Loudwhisper (loudwhisper.me)
submitted 3 days ago by loudwhisper@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In the last days I spent a disproportionate amount deleting old accounts I found in my password manager, and mostly because so many companies - despite the GDPR - have rudimentary, manually when not completely nonexistent processes to delete your data.

In this post I describe my process going through about 100 old accounts and trying to delete them all, including a top 10 for the weirdest, funniest or most interesting cases I encountered while doing so.

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[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice article.
Enjoyed reading it.

A few months ago, I alao went on a small spree of deleting from my ~500 accounts.
Some companies/services were offline, some redirected, some had no or very cumbersome ways to delete my data.
Sometimes I juat wanted to edit my email.

Welp. No can do bro. Your E-Mail is cemented in place and only the heat-death of the universe can remove it.

[โ€“] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks. Absolutely my experience too. The ones where you can't edit the email I noticed often used the email as username, and probably god knows how bad is the code on the backend.