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Probably web.archive has indexed one of your posts _before_ your account name changed to DELETED, so your change will be useless. The internet never forgets.
by chrisandchris 4y ago
Probably web.archive has indexed one of your posts _before_ your account name changed to DELETED, so your change will be useless.
The internet never forgets.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoPossibly, it doesn't hurt to try to reduce the attack surface though. A lot of the stuff I wrote on old popular, public websites (that still exist) can no longer be found via search engine, and I did not take any action, it just disappeared on its own.
- shagie 4y agoYou can take the possibility out of it when you look at Google's big data. It's not a question of "if it exists out there" or "how often it is updated if it exists out there." https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi... is updated daily.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoThere is no guarantee that copy will always be available or that they won't remove data. Just because there happens to be a copy already, doesn't mean that the original can't be removed to prevent others from making copies in the future.
- counttheforks 4y agoThen you send them GDPR right to be forgotten requests next. Alternatively, HN can force them to delist to the content.
- Zababa 4y agoIt does actually. At least once a month I go on an multiple hours long quest to find an old thing, and frequently I can't find it.