How to easily delete your online accounts

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You can't delete your account on HN btw. You can get banned, but your posts and profile remain.

I believe pg sometimes deletes accounts if you email him.

It's not clear that you should have the ability to delete your old posts. They have often become part of a conversation that is no longer yours alone.

Really? Tiny Adsense ads in the "instructions" area to fool us??

When you refresh, it moves to a different block. This is in violation of Google's AdSense guidelines. If you report the site, they'll get in trouble.

agree. the site is just to fool us. how it made to the frontpage?

Deleteyouraccount does just the same, with a much cleaner UI;

http://deleteyouraccount.com/

nice site, i think very useful, but lacking in presentation (not usability) but design-finesse.

I've got a landing page in "spanish".

The translation is so bad that I would never ever use their service. Hint: you should never use google translate to provide localizaed versions of your website.

For those who did not get it: your dog speaks insert language here better than google translate does. Seriously.

In a lot of cases apps don't delete your account, they just mark you deleted.

In some cases it's a performance thing. Instead of deleting the entire table with user X's info, they just flip a value in the deleted/disabled table column. If they really want to delete it they can run a batch job later.

Then again, it might have as much to do with reactivating accounts as it does with server performance.

I would love to see a facebook account deletion phishing site where it lured users into entering their login credentials and clicking a few submits and deleting their account.

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