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Quora gives me a link to "deactivate" my account but wants me to write a mail to privacy@quora.com for "deleting" my account. Others have reported that the requests sent to this email address are not fulfilled, neither are the mails even replied to.

I want to know the names of assholes in charge of this company so that I can avoid ever working with them.

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Quora uses a massive amount of dark patterns. They are huge gaping assholes. I bet they even have a counter-UX engineer whose role is just to design users to enter as much info as possible and never leave the website.

I got my account deleted just fine by emailing them. Have you tried?

I e-mailed them, then waited a few months, then e-mailed them again, then went through the site manually blanking my answers then deleting them (surprise, the 'delete' button just hides your answer), and only then did I get an e-mail back saying my account had been deleted.

I agree with nileshtrivedi these Quora guys seem like assholes - that's why I decided to delete my account in the first place.

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