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Why? Thank God in Germany it is forbidden to requiring an account for online purchases and you can buy anything online without needing to register for an accoun

• lifestyleguru 2y ago
  Most merchants and service providers keep your shadow account after purchase anyway. If you are lawyery kind of person you can request deleting the shadow account by contacting them and giving away even more of your personal details.
  • madjam002 2y ago
    Exactly, an account has been created for you anyway and the merchant holds pretty much the same amount of data on you, so I think requiring an account is a good thing as then at least you know that a company holds all these records about you. To be clear for online purchases I think it's a nice convenience to be able to buy without requiring an account, but for flights it's an entirely different game, you often need to provide a lot more PII.
  • 7bit 2y ago
    That is not the point. Of course they have data about me. That requirement is dictated by tax law. I really don't care if the seller creates a shadow account or not, that's his problem. The point is that I'm not forced to create and manage an account and I can do a second purchase without having to remember or reset a password to an account that was forced upon me.