I'd say: they don't respect your data more here's why: You have no personal data stored in your account settings. Some stuff you post on FB is supposed to be

I'd say: they don't respect your data more here's why: You have no personal data stored in your account settings. Some stuff you post on FB is supposed to be private, HN post are all public. Because they are public, they probably have been replicated quite a few times on internet archives. Unlike FB, HN has no tracking tools (well not on the client side anyway), unlike FB which tries to track you everywhere on the internet. Deleting your account is cumbersome to implement: how to deal with your comments, and would these need to be deleted too ?