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That's because HN prioritizes aesthetics over privacy and won't allow you to delete your account and all its comments.
by nvy 3y ago
That's because HN prioritizes aesthetics over privacy and won't allow you to delete your account and all its comments.
- zamadatix 3y agoBeing able to delete an account allows you to decide to remove your information from the site after a certain point. Cycling accounts is about not letting someone who looks at a single account at any time find enough information to piece together your identity at any point. Both are privacy related but the former is not a lead-in to the latter. As one who'd also like to see the ability to fully delete your HN account for privacy reasons I still think summarizing the alternative reasons as only aesthetics sells the counterarguments a bit short... ... but overall I'm getting myself and the whole conversation extremely off topic here. Probably best to discuss this in a thread about privacy on HN instead of one on robocallers.