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Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by raizinho » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:02 PM UTC

fredrikaurdal wrote: post #2

Occasionally 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…

Upstart.

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by IndefiniteFrog » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

Is anyone else having trouble viewing the spreadsheet? I can't view it on my computer or phone.

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by olivierduval » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

It seems like they'll soon be (heavily) fined under GDPR if they don't change... ;-)

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by BartBoch » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

fredrikaurdal wrote: post #25

bufferoverflow wrote: post #21

This makes little sense: Slack No No 2 Kayako Yes - Difficult No 0.25 Almost the same level of issues, yet an 8X difference in the score.

I can only find documentation on how to deactivate a Slack account, not delete it. Kayako allows you to delete an account, but after multiple requests. What do you suggest I change the weight to?

Maybe make scoring much, much clear. Like, add a popup next to scores with a breakdown on how the score was calculated.

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by woweeeee » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:17 PM UTC

I can’t delete my Hacker News data, comments or profile.

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by travmatt » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

fredrikaurdal wrote: post #47

inteleng wrote: post #37

Why isn't HN/YC on this list?

HN doesn't allow for people to delete their account, a lot of forum type websites have the same rule.

Or comments (after a certain age, which they say would disrupt threads), although it’s entirely possible to delete the author of a comment whilst leaving it intact (an option they do not offer)

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by y03a » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:25 PM UTC

fredrikaurdal wrote: post #47

inteleng wrote: post #37

Why isn't HN/YC on this list?

HN doesn't allow for people to delete their account, a lot of forum type websites have the same rule.

They keep telling me they're working on it.

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by tejtm » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:30 PM UTC

Thanks, I appreciate the thought and effort.

There is too much special sauce on the page for me to see the actual list (perhaps one of your critical resources is already on my blacklist or too third partyish).

Thought you may be able to make use of http://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/ to help with your checking. (no affiliation)

Plus it is great when a study like that is reproduced and vetted for drift.

Thanks again for you work.

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by sleavey » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:30 PM UTC

Something's up with the site, at least for me. The table content doesn't load - I see the different options (email, etc.) but no entries. Firefox console tells me:

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Loading failed for the with source “https://secured.fyi/analytics/piwik.js”: naughtylist.html:1

The resource at “https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/horizontal-slim-1... was blocked because tracking protection is enabled: naughtylist.html

Source map error: request failed with status 404 Resource URL: https://secured.fyi/assets/style.css Source Map URL: bulma.css.map

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What's wrong with a good ol'fashioned HTML table?

Re: Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

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Post by JepZ » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

sleavey wrote: post #59

Something's up with the site, at least for me. The table content doesn't load - I see the different options (email, etc.) but no entries. Firefox console tells me: ---- Loading failed for the with source “ https://secured.fyi/analytics/piwik.js” : naughtylist.html:1 The resource at “ https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/horizontal-slim-1... was blocked because tracking protection is enabled: naughtylist.html So…

I have problems with FF too (+uBlock Origin +DuckDuckGo Privacy). Loading the data from Google seems to fail:

  code	403
  message	Requests from referer https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1A3xz8NFWjebuMbGWvy2yUBKcnAmuZSs5JmKq9-JDss8/values/Email?key=AIzaSyCxiboNdLE5nSch2pdwI3blsfvfyss3Y0M are blocked.
  status	PERMISSION_DENIED