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Now a days it is a dark pattern. But in the days before "sell everything you can about your users" became the rule, businesses optimized for the accidental deletion by users. They could easily reinstate you and your data would still be there. It used to be considered good customer service. Times change.

You know HN doesn't let you delete your account, right? Even if you send them an email, apparently they're "too backed up" to handle account deletion requests.

It's things exactly like this that were a damn good reason the EU implemented GDPR.