How to easily delete your online accounts

I would love to see a facebook account deletion phishing site where it lured users into entering their login credentials and clicking a few submits and deleting their account.

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by shii » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

You can't delete your account on HN btw. You can get banned, but your posts and profile remain.

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by aguki » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 5:24 PM UTC

Deleteyouraccount does just the same, with a much cleaner UI;

http://deleteyouraccount.com/

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by StartupKiller » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 5:32 PM UTC

fido wrote: post #3

Really? Tiny Adsense ads in the "instructions" area to fool us??

agree. the site is just to fool us. how it made to the frontpage?

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by mestudent » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC

shii wrote: post #5

You can't delete your account on HN btw. You can get banned, but your posts and profile remain.

I believe pg sometimes deletes accounts if you email him.

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by getsat » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

fido wrote: post #3

Really? Tiny Adsense ads in the "instructions" area to fool us??

When you refresh, it moves to a different block. This is in violation of Google's AdSense guidelines. If you report the site, they'll get in trouble.

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by futurephonic » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

In a lot of cases apps don't delete your account, they just mark you deleted.