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Re: Just Delete Me

#41

Post by ChristianMarks »

Topsy appears to offer a data deletion service at accountremoval@topsy.com. Try asking them to delete their online archive of a defunct G+ account. (Defunct means that the G+ account and its content is deleted.) The service autoresponds to your email entreaty, but nothing is deleted. I have been emailing them for two weeks. The reply is the same:

  Re: Please delete my G+ content. I have deleted my G+ account

  Topsy Support  |  AUG 18, 2013  |  09:22PM UTC 
  Thank you for submitting your request. We have received
  your request and are working on responding to you as 
  soon as possible. If you have any additional information
  to add to this case, please reply to this email.

Re: Just Delete Me

#42

Post by TillE »

ggchappell wrote: post #37

One sentence here is curious: > JustDelete.Me is a directory of urls to delete your account from web services. (Yes, I am aware how terrible that description is. If you’ve got a better one, let me know). Sounds like a fine description to me. (It's certainly better than average. I find the descriptions of about half of the "take a look at this site" posts on HN to be incomprehensible; it's nice to be able to read a po…

"Directory of urls" is a bit geeky and not quite accurate.

Re: Just Delete Me

#43

Post by newman314 »

ChristianMarks wrote: post #41

Topsy appears to offer a data deletion service at accountremoval@topsy.com. Try asking them to delete their online archive of a defunct G+ account. (Defunct means that the G+ account and its content is deleted.) The service autoresponds to your email entreaty, but nothing is deleted. I have been emailing them for two weeks. The reply is the same: Re: Please delete my G+ content. I have deleted my G+ account Topsy Sup…

Topsy is fking evil. They have been gaming SERPs for quite a while now. I would lump them in the same category as Pipl, Spokeo etc.

Re: Just Delete Me

#46

Post by bluefinity »

sengstrom wrote: post #21
hugoroy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm. Do you really want to do that on your own? You'd have to find the ToS, document ToS changes, analyse the ToS, etc. We're trying to do that already at http://tosdr.org , please join in ( http://github.com/tosdr ) and http://tosback.org Edit: Hm I thought 5apps supported https already, i guess i was wrong

Hmmm... You attempted to reach tosdr.org, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.5apps.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of tosdr.org.

I'm guessing you have HTTPS Everywhere installed. It works fine on HTTP.

Re: Just Delete Me

#48

Post by AhtiK »

I wish to see a similar site made for changing passwords.

One use case is when the password storage is compromised but also helps when you grow more paranoid over time and need to rotate and max out the passwords.

Re: Just Delete Me

#49

Post by pgeorgi »

donniezazen wrote: post #45

I find it extremely frustrating that services like Gravatar and forums didn't inform me that I won't be able to wipe clean my account. It is not acceptable.

Especially gravatar which is capable of building a profile across every website that uses them without caching avatar images locally. Even for non-users, even retroactively.

There's a reason why I add some "+semirandomstring" to the userpart of my email address when writing comments (and hope that "helpful" services don't strip it out before md5'ing it for gravatar).

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