The very first thing that shows is the companies that are the least naughty.
This is a naughty list is it not? Suggest to please sort by naughtiest first.
Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is Mastodon listed as "does not delete account"? Look under Security -> Delete account
Updated to Yes - Partially, because don't guarantee deletion of all data.
I don't know what you mean. Mastodon deletes all the data from the server, and sends out delete payloads to other servers that may have stored copies. If you refer to the fact that some of those copies may remain, then you need to mark all services as not allowing account deletion because Google may have caches of indexed profile and post pages.
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#13The very first thing that shows is the companies that are the least naughty. This is a naughty list is it not? Suggest to please sort by naughtiest first.
We always sort by naughtiest first. Any services in particular you think have the wrong data?
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#14Kayako. No direct account deletion, they need to poke engineer to do it after many requests. They require your personal information and CC to use free plan. No direct downgrade button to free plan if on trial.
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#15Occasionally I go through my password manager to do a cleanup of accounts I no longer use. For the simple reason that if any one of those services get hacked, I don't want to lose credit card- or personal information, and have that end up in the hands of somebody who shouldn't have it. In trying to delete a few accounts, some services outright refused to delete my info, without giving any reason. Therefore, I've deci…
It looks like the major password managers are on the list.
Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information
#16Occasionally I go through my password manager to do a cleanup of accounts I no longer use. For the simple reason that if any one of those services get hacked, I don't want to lose credit card- or personal information, and have that end up in the hands of somebody who shouldn't have it. In trying to delete a few accounts, some services outright refused to delete my info, without giving any reason. Therefore, I've deci…
Why is Mastodon listed as "does not delete account"? Look under Security -> Delete account
Very true, most other services don't even try to delete all data like messages received by others. Changed.
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#17Kayako. No direct account deletion, they need to poke engineer to do it after many requests. They require your personal information and CC to use free plan. No direct downgrade button to free plan if on trial.
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Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Updated to Yes - Partially, because don't guarantee deletion of all data.
I don't know what you mean. Mastodon deletes all the data from the server, and sends out delete payloads to other servers that may have stored copies. If you refer to the fact that some of those copies may remain, then you need to mark all services as not allowing account deletion because Google may have caches of indexed profile and post pages.
Changed, replied to another message.
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#20One company I would like to nominate as naughty is Newegg. I hadn't ordered from them in years, and asked to delete or disable my account. They can keep their old invoices in the system if they want for legal reasons but I didn't want to log on anymore -- other sellers have processed that request for me. They repeatedly said "No, we will not disable your account." And they keep the last address you ordered from in an…
Newegg is going on the naughty list.
But NewEgg is famous for not bowing to patent trolls.