How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct

Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by Lio on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:32PM (#21465462)

Nope that’s not the conspiracy. The conspiracy is that you’ve pressed the wrong button because the UI is deliberately confusing.

If you could find the right button I’m sure it would delete the data...

except that it’s down the UI equivalent three flights of stairs to the basement, behind a filing cabinet in front of a locked door with a sign on saying “Beware of the leopard”.

Oh and every tracking feature is on by default even if you’re not logged in.

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Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by theelous3 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:20PM (#21477926)

Well, maybe for you. I'm in the EU. I don't have to navigate a UI. I can go the UI route, or I can email them instead for a surefire approach.

Even then, the UI's for these things usually aren't actually that darkpatterned. Once you get down the first dark tunnel, it tends to open up quite well.

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