I first change my information then delete it. So IE say my name is Don Brown. I change it to Jack Thorton, wait a few days and then delete.

I have recently tried to remove a lot of accounts from website I no longer use. A lot of them don’t even have that option, especially forums.

Absolutely. One mailadress per service. Once a year or so i cycle through everything and delete accounts i don’t need/want. I contact the services that don’t offer deletion of my data directly. I like to think that the little things count.

I have been using temporary emails for accounts that I don’t think is necessary.

For example, I was trying to mod Stardew Valley and for some reason Nexus Mods requires an account to download, so I just made one using a temporary email and random password.

I’m not gonna delete the account because screw them why would I need an account to download stuff. Imma eat up their storage.

It is unlikely that the service itself will delete your data. Although if it is one of those job board sites like indeed that try to build a profile and sell it to employers it might make sense to delete your account so your information is no longer forwarded

I do this a lot whenever I have my 5-year cycle of migrating accounts. If I have lost track of and forgotten entirely the purpose of an account I had once made and know it is not essential or required, it is gone.

Unfortunately, there are services and places out there online in which they do not allow you to delete accounts. I wish this would be a federal law of some kind because it would lessen your footprints online. It is bad practice and I automatically label them as data farms because really, what reason do you have to not allow people to delete their accounts? You’re setting people up to be collected in data breaches and therefore your data falls into the hands of someone you wouldn’t want to have it.

That makes sense actually.