Delete everything related to my account and email

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  herro7 · Member · Nov 23, 2016 at 8:31 am

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  Please delete everything that is connected with my email including the email-adress itself. Please delete everything so that nothing stays on your servers.

  Regards.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2016 at 9:00 pm

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  Here’s how to deactivate your account:
  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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  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.html

  4. 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

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  herro7 · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 9:57 am

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  Thanks for answering, timethief, but unfortunately that does not help me.

  I want to delete my complete account and all connected data. Gravatar and WordPress having no delete option in the profile settings is really stealing my time. How is this supposed to make users happy if they cannot even delete their account in 2016?!

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  herro7 · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 9:58 am

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  Thanks for answering, timethief, but unfortunately that does not help me.

  I want to delete my complete account and all connected data. Gravatar and WordPress having no delete option in the profile settings is really stealing my time. How is this supposed to make users happy if they cannot even delete their account in 2016?!

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  herro7 · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 9:58 am

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  Thanks for answering, timethief, but unfortunately that does not help me.

  I want to delete my complete account and all connected data. Gravatar and WordPress having no delete option in the profile settings is really stealing my time. How is this supposed to make users happy if they cannot even delete their account in 2016?!