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Apple Reminds Developers That Apps Offering Account Creation Need to Add Account Deletion by June 30
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It feels the same way with Car and Driver.
I tried to cancel it for 2 years and still sending me the magazines while billing me. 🤣
Exactly. Every store will want all your details. Then apps will want your details. Open up Face ID with an api and derives will use it to verify who is looking at ads, watching a show, buying a book. There is always a dozen more things they want.
WhatsApp won't be going anywhere soon, at least in Europe, unfortunately neither Facebook.
Call Tim Cook and tell him what number he is thinking of between 1 and 100.
Every day I feel more and more grateful that my country passed a law requiring equal means for cancellation, compared to those needed for registration. If you register online, you cancel online. This should truly by mandated everywhere as to combat crap like this.
I can delete WhatsApp account?
Settings - Account - Delete my account
It's the same with Instagram.
And the person I talked to held out for a pretty long time trying to convince me to stay. Entirely for that reason, I got a prepaid gift card with some minimal balance. Their problem now.
Developers can add a Webview and redirect the user to their website for account deletion if they don't feel like implementing the feature natively on their app.
That's a really good move by Apple. I hope the next move is if you can upgrade an account in-app, you should be able to downgrade in-app. That would save many hours on the phone to Sky to remove packages at the end of trial periods that were a simple click to sign up for.
You don't have to quit it necessarily, just input a bunch of false info:
Excellent move! If only all accounts could be deleted. So frustrating to get an alert that some site has been compromised and my info leaked, though I haven't been to the site in years and don't intend to go there again, but there's no way to kill the account. It's like having my own personal Zombies living on forever.
Apple is doing the gov. work, those should be laws. The only question is, will the services actually delete the account and data or just "hides" them in an "inactive" account.
btw, anyone looking to delete his online presence on many places there is a great app for that called Redact. FREE!(for now)
you mean delete it? Since GDRP things have been easier. If you mean like a service you like to use, I wouldn't say so. THere are people who like it there are people who don't.
There is a FOSS alternative called Mastodon . Basically you can create your own twitter (Server) , then people on your server can read and reply to people who have their own Mastodon server. Its not one unit.
Benefits of this you can block servers you do not want to deal with (sports, politics, anything you consider toxic) and not be on the same service you are like on Instagram and FB. Also decentralization, no one controls the whole operation and can censoring and cancel any single person. It has mobile apps. Problem is not much people on it and its hardly picking up.
This kind of behaviour why I am glad these businesses are going under. I hate dark pattern and malicious business behaviours. I once signed for AOL for free to check what it was about, I had to give my Credit Card. Once I decided I want to stop the free trial I had to call their office or they will charge me!!
You can from the Apple website
btw, anyone looking to delete his online presence on many places there is a great app for that called Redact. FREE!(for now)
you mean delete it? Since GDRP things have been easier. If you mean like a service you like to use, I wouldn't say so. THere are people who like it there are people who don't.
There is a FOSS alternative called Mastodon . Basically you can create your own twitter (Server) , then people on your server can read and reply to people who have their own Mastodon server. Its not one unit.
Benefits of this you can block servers you do not want to deal with (sports, politics, anything you consider toxic) and not be on the same service you are like on Instagram and FB. Also decentralization, no one controls the whole operation and can censoring and cancel any single person. It has mobile apps. Problem is not much people on it and its hardly picking up.
This kind of behaviour why I am glad these businesses are going under. I hate dark pattern and malicious business behaviours. I once signed for AOL for free to check what it was about, I had to give my Credit Card. Once I decided I want to stop the free trial I had to call their office or they will charge me!!
You can from the Apple website
I mean quit as in stop emailing me. My account is no longer visible, but I still get emails saying "X number of people have searched for you..." If my account was deleted they wouldn't be able to contact me or know who these people were searching for.
I think this is illegal. Am sure in the T&A somewhere you signed and agreed that all info is correct
First I think you can stop these notifications in the settings somewhere
Second, you can use a false email account. There are 10min email accounts you can search for , change your email to it, verify it and after that 10min that email will disappear and you will lose access to it and to your twitter account.
Similarly, there is a service by duckduckgo where they give you infinite pusedo emails to sign up with and all these emails will be forwarded to your main email. 3rd party will never know your original email unless you email them back(I think) from there you can simply just block emails coming from that email address (or block twitter emails currently coming in). Similar paid services available by SimpleLogin and AnonAddy
So let me get this straight. You don't want an account anymore. They don't let you delete your account and you violate ToS. Them banning your account is to your detriment how?
You can't stop the notifications if your account is deleted.
I shouldn't have to create a fake email account or pay someone to stop being harassed. In the end, continued solicitations after asking your account to be deleted are a form of harassment. It's no longer advertising or marketing once you ask them to stop.
Isn’t this also a California law? California goes overboard sometimes (the cancer warnings on literally everything for example) but this one should be picked up federally, and fast.
We’ve evolved from surveillance capitalism to harassment capitalism. This is just par for the course now. My advice, use throwaway unique email addresses, same way you should be using unique passwords. You already have a password manager (I hope) so why not use unique email addresses as well.