On: Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

[r3bl]

This tool is highly useful: https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/

It ranks hundreds of websites from "easy" to "impossible".

[kuhhk → r3bl]

Looks like that is more about closing/deleting the entire account than cancelling a subscription. I'm more interested in cancelling my subscription than to delete my profile. Still a nice website, just not really something I'd find that useful. Thanks for sharing

[xibalba → r3bl]

Interestingly enough, HN is listed as "impossible".

[anticensor → xibalba]

Because it is. How would delete account work in a threaded forum? Delete all your posts?

[tgsovlerkhgsel → anticensor]

Give you three options:

1. delete all your posts the same way they would be deleted if you went to them and pressed the delete button.

2. Anonymize them (replace user name with "deleted user <randomnumber>").

3. Keep storing the username

After that, delete all other data (profile, settings, e-mail, password hash, ...)

[xibalba → anticensor]

Yes.

[jammygit → r3bl]

Could gdpr endanger sites like this? Actually curious

[zenexer → jammygit]

How would it? GDPR only protects personal information of individuals, and even then only in specific cases.

[jammygit → zenexer]

Wasnt sure if it was individual humans and not 'persons'

[dymk → zenexer]

GDPR is so poorly specified that not even its authors know how to interpret portions of it.