<story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts</title><url>http://justdelete.me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fairly understandable that delete from a retailer is hard. In many places retailers are under obligation to store records relating to transactions for things like tax compliance, agreements with credit providers, anti-fraud and accounting laws. i.e. Amazon&lt;p&gt;What does delete even mean in these circumstances? The best they&amp;#x27;re able to do is just remove your public profile (if such a thing exists) whilst leaving everything else intact.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also understandable that collaborative works have no real delete (as the end user perceives it). The very nature of a collaborative work means that removing some contribution from the past could alter the work as it stands today. i.e. Wikipedia&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s really surprising are the media outlets on the list with the high level of difficulty. The EU data protection laws only permit a company to retain that data which is necessary to provide a service, for as long as the service is provided or the company is obliged (by law) to keep the information. Those outlets (Gawker) seem to hide under the collaborative works stuff, but if you&amp;#x27;ve an account but never made a comment then deletion shouldn&amp;#x27;t be objected to.&lt;p&gt;General rules:&lt;p&gt;If there was a monetary transaction they&amp;#x27;re going to keep your info but might delete your public profile.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s a collaborative work you might get your profile deleted but all of your contributions will remain as a public record.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s an interaction with the government you&amp;#x27;re never going to get it deleted.</text></comment>
<story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts</title><url>http://justdelete.me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>The way I&amp;#x27;m going to use this list is to look up services before I sign up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also be interested to see if user satisfaction correlates with ease of quitting. It seems like companies which make it hard for users to quit do so because many users want to quit. Anecdotally this holds true for the handful of companies on that list I&amp;#x27;ve used, but I&amp;#x27;d like to see some actual stats.</text></comment>