> Wouldn’t it be more user friendly and privacy aware, allowing users to own their data? Yes. It's a huge glaring oversight that a community so IT focused and

> Wouldn’t it be more user friendly and privacy aware, allowing users to own their data? Yes. It's a huge glaring oversight that a community so IT focused and that often complains about "Facebook" and privacy can't even see when it's happening. But HN is not a utility like Facebook or Youtube, so you can argue, their site, their rules. But the irony is what is annoying. The idea of dogfooding privacy and digital rights seems lost on HN. PS Getting Shadowed banned will help stop getting yourself indexed at least. PPS And the argument other sites might index HN anyway so it's ok to do is so flawed it's delusional. PPPS The argument that the old info is of value is also "horder" style delusional. We need to stop this idea if absolutely everything is not kept (at the cost of privacy) it matters.