Delete account
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I would like to actually delete my account. Yes, it is possible. Just do it. The fact that you make it so hard only makes me want to do it more.
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Closed as a duplicate thread. Please find my reply at:
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This isn’t the same thing as deleting an account. WordPress is the only site I’ve ever heard of in my entire life that does this BS. It honestly seems so anti-security that my desire to delete my account is 1000x higher now. This is insane.
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Note that if a person uses any products listed here https://automattic.com/ they require a wordpress.COM username account.
Note also Although username accounts are not deleted, so you cannot be impersonated and have your reputation affected by anyone registering the same username in the future, there are steps you can take that amount to removing all personal information and result in leaving only a throwaway email address behind and you have already been given the relevant link to them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
Registering an account here required
(1) your consent to the Terms of Service http://wordpress.com/tos/ ie. a binding legal agreement and all policies made under it found in the support docs like this one for Deleting Accounts http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/,
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(2) an email address.
Any personal information you posted anywhere was posted voluntarily. Both the email address and personal information can be removed or replaced at any time.
You may want to read this support doc:
Private User Data https://en.support.wordpress.com/private-user-data/ and other information disclosed in the privacy policy https://automattic.com/privacy/1. You can go to My Account->Edit Profile at https://wordpress.com/me/account and remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This only leaves the username behind.
2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/3. To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html4. To hide your Gravatar profile, login and on the bottom right hand corner of your Gravatar profile page you will find a “hide” button visible only to you that you can click. http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy
IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1 -
The fact that I have never heard of a single other site on the entire web that does this should tell you how insane of a policy it is. I don’t want to change my password and delete my content. I WANT TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT. It’s not rocket science.
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You are speaking nonsense. Even Facebook has account deactivation and if you login again within 2 weeks of deactivation there then your account is alive again.
The fact that you entered a legal contract without reading it is beyond the control of anyone accept you.
Please act on the instructions and stop wasting your time knowing that every thread here is almost instantly indexed by Google and is available in Google search to all on the internet.
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Oops! accept was, of course, meant to be except but my bilingual spellchecker didn’t catch it.
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A) quit kidding yourself that anyone reads those. They are literally designed to be so obfuscated that the average person cannot read it
B) The difference is that after 2 weeks Facebook deletes your account, WordPress are giving me no such option.
C) Why on earth are you even defending anti-consumer practices like this, it is against your own self-interest anyway lmao
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