Accounts You Can’t Delete
There are a startling number of services and publications online that do not let you delete an account, period. They generally state it up front in the Terms of service (ToS)-you know, the text that no one ever reads. If you suddenly decide to reclaim your privacy and want to obliterate yourself from the following services, well, you’re SOL. Note that most of these companies keep this information for legal and regulatory reasons. The rest are just not that into helping you.
Starbucks-While it has no facility for deleting an account entirely, you can email [email protected] and ask them-reportedly they’ll offer to scramble your data so it’s useless to them, you, and data trolling bots.
Walmart-You don’t need an account to shop at Walmart in the real world or online. However, if you do sign up for an account-it makes returns easier, if nothing else-it’s never going away. You can try calling 800-966-6546, then dialing 238 to get a real person.
Wikipedia-Wikipedia wants attribution on changes to its millions of articles, so it doesn’t allow a username to be deleted. It can, however, be changed.
WordPress-You can’t delete an account, but you can delete the individual blogs associated with it. It suggests simply leaving the account inactive if you don’t want it anymore.
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Twitter Tweets are a breeze to obliterate. Visit Twitter’s “account settings” page from a desktop web browser (you can’t do it via mobile) and you can deactivate your account with the link at the bottom. Lees verder