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Forcing an export is an interesting idea. But, like, from the article it sounds like almost anything would be a better flow. It didn't even warn that any data
by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Forcing an export is an interesting idea. But, like, from the article it sounds like almost anything would be a better flow. It didn't even warn that any data would be deleted at all.
- perching_aix 9mo agoYeah, that's true. One further refinement I can think of is bundling in a deletion code with the export archive, e.g. a UUID. Then they could request the user to put in that code into a confirmation box, thereby "guaranteeing" the user did indeed download the whole thing and that the service provider is free to nuke it. Wouldn't really be a guarantee in technical actuality, but one really needs to go out of their way to violate it. I guess this does make me a baddie insofar that this is probably how "theaters" are born, rituals that do not / cannot actually carry the certainty they bolster in their effect, just an empirical one if that.