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It seems to me that the EU has been surprisingly good in terms of internet literacy and laws (though this is probably not the end of the Article 11 or 13).

In view of recent leaks, I have filed a number of request for account deletion, given to me by GDPR, and all of them have been completed. This is pretty amazing in my mind.

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I'm the creator of https://opt-out.eu and I can confirm that you are correct. It works, in the vast majority of cases.

That's actually quite nice. Looks like all the data brokers will receive emails from me today :)

The last company I made erase me was cdon.com after I bought something on sale there and they demanded my SSN to pay with credit cards. I see that they are missing from your site, their DPO email is: dpo@cdon.com

I also like "This service does not collect or trade any personal data."

Thanks, I've added them.

That's awesome, it's a real problem that I have to deal with. In my case Blizzard Entertainment refused to delete my information. They wanted me to actually send a copy of my passport to them in a physical letter to "verify" me. Crazy right? The entire idea of deleting my information is so that they do not possess even more information of mine. I might use this to contact them.

You are right, some companies (particularly in the US) are doing anything they can to make the process intolerable.

Hi, that link redirects me to https://es.opt-out.eu/ which then proceeds to fail loading due to a "failed secure connection" (literal translation from the message that appears in Firefox for Android)

Not sure why you're getting this, I'll look into it. Thanks for letting us know.

High enough penalties enforced by a global power are quite effective.

Have you ever tried having your accounts deleted before the GDPR roll-out? Because I have, and no company ever said no.

There's a big difference between "delete my account" and "delete all information you have on me". From people I've spoken to, there have been a lot of companies implementing the latter in order to be compliant.

I could not delete my Discord account, for example, even talking with them several times by mail.

Also, some companies merely "soft-deleted" user accounts. Simple flag on the user in the database

A bit of weird one here, but thedailywtf.com. I wasn't able to find any sort of "delete my account" functionality. Not that anythings changed post-GDPR, but...

(The only reason I was reminded that I actually had an ancient account is that my password from there was apparently leaked and spammers tried to convince me that they'd gained control of something important. They couldn't connect the password to the site, obviously. It was just a leaked password database.)

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