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Should you delete accounts after you are done with their purpose?
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Yes, assuming the site allows deleting accounts.
Many don't have an easy way of deleting accounts. Some won't delete an account even when making a formal request.
I noticed that with some niche services.
The were some that I wanted to keep but didnt have a way of changing my email adress.
Like why. That can't be that difficult.
Likely bad coding or bad database design.
Best practice is to avoid using email as primary key in the user database, instead use an internal ID, so that an email change can happen without touching the primary key.
Your reply made me think of an alternative to deleting accounts : replace personal information to use a pseudonym and a throwaway email, remove everything that can be removed.
That would help once the badly coded website get hacked or its database get leaked.