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.

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I’ve been doing this.

    I also realized the importance of not just using a different (strong) password on each site, but using a different email, and using a different username.

    I had quite a few accounts to modify/delete, and I realized if I did 5-10 per day that I could accomplish it in less than a few months, with very little stress.

    Well, good news. I finished last week.

  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    20 days ago

    The “development team” literally replaced my username with “DELETED”, supposedly in a literal interpretation of “can you delete this user?” request, and that’s it.

    Should’ve asked "can you admin this user? 😅

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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.