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Re:Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to userna... by KeepFlying on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:34PM (#23011617)
I noticed a similar thing being done for Bird scooters a while back. I forget the suffix but they did the same and I noticed because I was still authed on my phone after requesting deletion. My token has expired since then though so for all I know they have fully deleted the account since.
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Re:Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to userna... by ashtonkem on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:24PM (#23012265)
Having known people who worked at Bird, I doubt it. They had a real culture of “hack it up and then move on”, going back and fixing stuff like that isn’t in their culture.
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