Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability
by ChrisGranger on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:47PM
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Please, please, please let this become a thing. I hate how many sites force you to jump through hoops to remove your data and/or close your account.
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Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability
by p1necone on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:06PM
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A lot of those hoops are an important security measure though. Imagine if someone else could quickly and easily delete your account if they managed to steal your password.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability
by pluma on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:20AM
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No, a lot of hoops are barely even legal.
Many services don't even allow you to delete your account, just to disable it and have it hang around in their database as long as they want. That's a blatant violation of privacy.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability
by jiveturkey on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:13PM
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no, most of the hoops are a dark pattern to discourage you not to delete and/or trick you into incomplete deletion.
presumably a .delete domain wouldn't be "quick and easy", you'd still have to authenticate and perhaps verify intent via OOB method. however, the link to the action would be well known and obvious, instead of having to dig dig dig around a website.