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Pour one out for the dev who got called on saturday morning to break the account deletion process

• yididya436 8mo ago
  Can i gat hack's
• qup 8mo ago
  If he breaks it for a day or two half the deletions won't happen. That said, I doubt there's very many.
  • abbadadda 8mo ago
    The lament I think is more that this is a kind of "dark pattern" that's not really regulated. IMO it should be as easy to delete an account as it is to sign up. To my mind, this is very similar to subscribing/unsubscribing which IIRC is regulated now. The overall point I'm making is that it is "gross" when companies do stuff like this and yet there's zero accountability. Or when it comes to reliability of account deletion tech companies put up their hands and say "whoops technology is hard."
    • duskdozer 8mo ago
      They tried! https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/... https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2025/07/23/eighth-circuit-voids-ftc-click-to-cancel-rule/ https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2025/07/23/eighth-cir...