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Surely you're joking, Skype
- chetanahuja 11y agoSkype is like Hotel California.
- monroepe 11y agoI laughed pretty good when I read that.
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- cornewut 11y agoThere is no "delete" on Internet
- krapp 11y agoThis is not discussing the entire internet, but trends among specific services designed make it far easier to add your personal data than remove it. And arguably, your comment is not objectively true, but only tends to be true. There's no technical reason why data (even personal data) can't disappear from the internet - one only need look at the recent worries about the state of repos on Google Code to see that, until there's some overriding interest in backing something up, it doesn't necessarily get backed up.
- dangerboysteve 11y agoNetflix has the same policy or it did when I wanted to delete my account. Support person instructed me to change the email address to something unknown.
- burkaman 11y agohttp://justdelete.me/ http://justdelete.me/ is a good site for looking up these policies. Skype is bad, but not quite in the "Impossible" tier with sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Hacker News.
- jmkni 11y agoIIRC StackExchange is the same
- anderiv 11y agoOn SE, you can delete your identifiable information, turning your username into one of the generic "userXXXXXX" names. All of the content you've produced remains, though.
- Vexs 11y agoWhich is really great. I hate looking for some obscure problem, find where someone posted a fix online, then discover the account of the fixer was deleted and the fix is gone now. Even worse when it's a program or file or something...
- Vexs 11y agoWhich is really great. I hate looking for some obscure problem, find where someone posted a fix online, then discover the account of the fixer was deleted and the fix is gone now. Even worse when it's a program or file or something...
- burkaman 11y agoAccording to justdelete.me, "If you haven't posted on the site, it's just one click. Otherwise, edit your 'About Me' bio to say 'please delete me' then contact support."
- zeeed 11y agosadly, this is actually not new and has riddled many forums before. skype has never allowed that before and, to my knowledge, never communicated why that is. Or if there maybe is a technical reason for it.