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Re:Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for? by jventura on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:09AM (#30346590)
> Deleted Facebook in 2013 and lost access to my Quora account, with no possible way to recover it.

Did the same but lost my Spotify account. Needless to say, but I haven’t used Spotify since then..

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Re:Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for? by riggsdk on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:42AM (#30347013)
I created my Spotify account back when they only had the option to create it with a Facebook account (or at least they hid the email option very well). Eventually I disabled my facebook account and realized that disabled my spotify too. I spent an hour or so with Spotify support to transfer all my playlists to a new account since they couldn't (at least back then) convert my account to be a non-FB account. So much time wasted. Never again.
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Re:Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for? by kojeovo on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:31AM (#30347761)
They may have fixed this. Either that or I did something explicitly that resulted in my Spotify account being accessible by the email I used on FB.
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