Sad that Apple does not allow you to delete your account. Even Facebook does?
PS; if you think I am wrong post a direct link how to delete within Apple's domain. Trust me it does not exist.
How do I permanently delete my account?
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Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Watch how you use those words - if one defines ‘better’ and ‘worse’ in the context of my privacy, then ads that don’t do creepy things are better.
Don't underestimate how bad bad ads can be. I turned off targeted advertising on my Android phone for a while. The result was that around 50% of ad banners I saw were ultra-spammy strobing things--presumably the only ones that will pay for untargeted ads--making apps with built-in ad banners essentially unusable. I wound up changing back. That may have been the intention. (An Android ad blocker would probably work be…
Curious - what apps do you use that has apps, but doesn't have a paid option (that you are willing to pay for)?
I rarely see ads on my android (I do use ad blocker for Web browsing).
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#93It's kinda ironic that all the people here are complaining that facebook might not actually really delete literally every single bit of information that you have, while hacker news doesn't allow you to edit your comments, delete them, or delete your profile. This sort of functionality should exist on every platform that even has accounts. Does anyone know if GDPR (or similar law in the future) will actually force HN…
> Does anyone know if GDPR (or similar law in the future) will actually force HN and other sites that don't have this feature, to remove accounts, at least EU ones, upon request? As far as I know, the GDPR is more of a clarification (along with some explicit guidelines for fines), than it is new legislation - so hn and similar sites would already be in breach, if they didn't allow the deletion of all profile data. I'…
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Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#94I deleted my fb account more then 2 years ago. Quality of life went up 10x. I highly recommend it, fb's value is hugely overrated.
Your quality of life must have been rather low for it to go up 10x by deleting facebook.
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#95They suggest downloading a copy of your data first. How does one do that?
You do it from settings, from the main settings page. I just did it myself, it's quite terrifying how much data they have on me. I also discovered that all my contacts from my phone have been synced to Facebook, despite my trying to avoid that.
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#9690 days to delete my data? Is a real person going to every server and manually changing the bits that store it? :) ... I wonder if this is an artificially inflated time period, just like the 'Unsubscribe' feature from unsolicited emails that tell you it might take "7 to 10 days" to unsubscribe your email address, when it should take less than a second.
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Watch how you use those words - if one defines ‘better’ and ‘worse’ in the context of my privacy, then ads that don’t do creepy things are better.
Don't underestimate how bad bad ads can be. I turned off targeted advertising on my Android phone for a while. The result was that around 50% of ad banners I saw were ultra-spammy strobing things--presumably the only ones that will pay for untargeted ads--making apps with built-in ad banners essentially unusable. I wound up changing back. That may have been the intention. (An Android ad blocker would probably work be…
Recognise that the ad platform itself has an incentive to pump absolute bilge at you.
I have an incentive to block that as hard as humanly, or computationally, possible.
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#98It's kinda ironic that all the people here are complaining that facebook might not actually really delete literally every single bit of information that you have, while hacker news doesn't allow you to edit your comments, delete them, or delete your profile. This sort of functionality should exist on every platform that even has accounts. Does anyone know if GDPR (or similar law in the future) will actually force HN…
Yes or they could be fined 20 million dollars or 4% of their revenue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15769773
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#9990 days to delete my data? Is a real person going to every server and manually changing the bits that store it? :) ... I wonder if this is an artificially inflated time period, just like the 'Unsubscribe' feature from unsolicited emails that tell you it might take "7 to 10 days" to unsubscribe your email address, when it should take less than a second.
Maybe they have different tiers of backup systems, and manually trying to go in there and deleting one person's data on demand can be "expensive", so they do it in batches. You're only guaranteed to be fully wiped off after a certain amount of time.
Re: How do I permanently delete my account?
#10090 days to delete my data? Is a real person going to every server and manually changing the bits that store it? :) ... I wonder if this is an artificially inflated time period, just like the 'Unsubscribe' feature from unsolicited emails that tell you it might take "7 to 10 days" to unsubscribe your email address, when it should take less than a second.
Some years back working with another social service, a major issue was cached data through third-party providers (think Akamai, Limelight, Cloudflare, etc.). These are systems 1) outside the primary service's immediate control and 2) with their own data-retention policies and 3) data management tools.
Someone I knew was tasked with removing large quantities of image data that had proved inopportune. There was limited support for doing this, though a method was developed. My understanding is that the caching service provider hadn't had to deal with such matters at that scale previously, though this information is incomplete. I strongly suspect that this is more frequently encountered now.
I'm not excusing Facebook (and generally avoid doing so), but one of the interesting things about scale is, well, its sheer scale, and what seem like simple operations become complex.