Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile
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How can I do this? Can't find a way in the settings...
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aw crap I forgot this a few days ago
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@ben_lubar You've spent two months not flipping a switch?
What kind of game are you playing here?
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Hey according to GDPR your users have a "right to erasure", so I guess we should remove the toggle to deny account deletion, eh
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@julianlam Nobody gives a shit about Eurolaws.
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Why does a person who has never posted except to ask to delete his profile want to delete his profile? You wouldn't have one if you had not posted to have it deleted.
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@ben_lubar said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
aw crap I forgot this a few days ago
You also forgot it two months' ago.
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@polygeekery said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Why does a person who has never posted except to ask to delete his profile want to delete his profile? You wouldn't have one if you had not posted to have it deleted.
@fbmac sockpuppet detected
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@coldandtired Won't somebody think of @maxathousand?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@ben_lubar You've spent two months not flipping a switch?
What kind of game are you playing here?
@polygeekery said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Why does a person who has never posted except to ask to delete his profile want to delete his profile? You wouldn't have one if you had not posted to have it deleted.
@coldandtired said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
You also forgot it two months' ago.
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@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@julianlam Nobody gives a shit about Eurolaws.
If you're a business you should, as US-based companies which deal with European users also fall under the GDPR. If you don't want to comply with GDPR, I guess you'll have no choice but to geo-block the whole of Europe.
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@alexmedia What I worry about is some asshole Eurojerk buying into a product, even though it's in US English and priced in US dollars and there's absolutely zero reason to think the company is set up to do business in Eurovania in any way, and then going to their local, i dunno, dutchess or whatever, and start bitching about their data.
Jerks like that are who's going to get the entire continent hellbanned.
I'm already fucking sick of companies, even a lot of US companies, being all "THIS SITE USES COOKIES OMGOMGOMG!" Fuck Europeans, why do you want to make the internet so shitty? Are you just assholes? Or are you jealous that the US dominates this market because your entire continent was snoozing through the 1980s and 1990s, apparently?
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@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Hey according to GDPR your users have a "right to erasure", so I guess we should remove the toggle to deny account deletion, eh
Only if you can prevent people in Brazil from using it.
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@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@julianlam Nobody gives a shit about Eurolaws.
Have you ever seen cookie usage notification?
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@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@alexmedia What I worry about is some asshole Eurojerk buying into a product, even though it's in US English and priced in US dollars and there's absolutely zero reason to think the company is set up to do business in Eurovania in any way, and then going to their local, i dunno, dutchess or whatever, and start bitching about their data.
The primary intent of extending GDPR beyond the borders of the European Union is to prevent companies like Facebook and Google from scraping data about all European citizens without being able to hold them accountable in any way (see the recent saga surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica).
A typical mom and pop shop shouldn't have to worry too much about GDPR, as there's not really a legal precedent for enforcement (yet). See also this post:
I'm already fucking sick of companies, even a lot of US companies, being all "THIS SITE USES COOKIES OMGOMGOMG!" Fuck Europeans, why do you want to make the internet so shitty? Are you just assholes? Or are you jealous that the US dominates this market because your entire continent was snoozing through the 1980s and 1990s, apparently?
I have to agree with you on this, the EU cookie directive is bloody awful. Like many laws, the original idea was good ("people need to know that they can be tracked!") but the outcome is just overly annoying and leads to a whole new episode of pop-up fatigue.
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@blakeyrat in case you'd not noticed the internet is international and subject to a mishmash of extra-territorial law. You (USA'ian) get some silly cookie laws inflicted on you (which GDPR actually makes slightly more sane), we (Europeans) get copyright bullshit and bureaucracy along with futile 'child protection' laws.
If GDPR had been around for longer some of the current facebook data leaking shit might not have happened...
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@pjh said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Trolleybus Garage seen by registered users only?
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Trolleybus Garage seen by registered users only?
Given the timescale involved, I'd be surprised if they actually got that far down the category list.
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Have you ever seen cookie usage notification?
Like 800 times a day, thanks Europe for making everything online just a little bit shittier.
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@pjh is it ignored by default for new users? Because I don't ignore it and hence have it in top 5 unread pretty much all the time.
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@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Have you ever seen cookie usage notification?
Like 800 times a day, thanks Europe for making everything online just a little bit shittier.
At least I have 150Mbps for $15/month.
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@gąska But even so, most of it is giving people a hard time or laughing at unspecified things people have posted.
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The whole cookie notification is going to go the way of the cancer labels I always see when I visit California. After a while, you become numb to the warning because it's applied to virtually anything that might be remotely harmful to you, and if you really cared about being as safe as possible, you'd be out in some bubble with no internet and probably become a follower of those weird sovereign citizens.
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@pjh I guess Facebook and Pinterest have succeeded in training people to sign up immediately rather than just lurking.
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@pjh said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Trolleybus Garage seen by registered users only?
Yeah, that reads to me as some snowflake registered, found the garage, and promptly noped.
Fine, whatever. But the whole "I don't want to leave an active 'anon_1234' account associated with me" thing seems...
well first of all, if that nick is "associated" with you, you somehow managed to fuck up the one thing that I assumed you would've got right;
and it would hardly be "active" if you leave and never come back, now would it;
and considering that nothing of significance has actually been posted here by this person, who gives a rip whether the account still exists? If not for the topic that they started, nobody would've even noticed.
edit: and just for good measure, it's not like anyone who googles his nick would know about the "toxicity" that this place supposedly has, since the garage wasn't googleable or viewable unless you were logged in, even before ben made it into a group-members-only area.
If the issue is that they're worried about the email address associated with the account leaking out, change it to some mailinator address [do we block those? I'm not sure... even so I'm sure a suitably motivated person could manage to find a domain that we don't block] and then just log out and forget about it.
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@magus said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@gąska But even so, most of it is giving people a hard time or laughing at unspecified things people have posted.
I live in Eastern Europe. Most of my bandwidth is spent downloading games and movies.
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Have you ever seen cookie usage notification?
Like 800 times a day, thanks Europe for making everything online just a little bit shittier.
At least I have 150Mbps for $15/month.
Damn euroweenies. Yeah, flip those 2 numbers and that's life in the US...
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@the_quiet_one said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
The whole cookie notification
is going to gohas went the way of the cancer labels I always see when I visit California.FTF2015.
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@anotherusername said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Fine, whatever. But the whole "I don't want to leave an active 'anon_1234' account associated with me" thing seems...
The name was something else earlier; it got renamed to @anon_1234 (not to be confused with @anonymous234)
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@hungrier ah. So it was. Thanks, █████████!
Fine, I won't be a dick.
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@anotherusername apparently, he wanted his name gone from here, but he's okay with 5th Google result being Urban Dictionary contribution.
@mods you probably want to delete this and the above post for doxxing.
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@gąska well, it's not like he's the only one using the name, either. At least, I'm pretty sure the StackExchange and the POF profile aren't the same person.
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@anotherusername said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
But the whole "I don't want to leave an active 'anon_1234' account associated with me" thing
I know, what a stupid username.
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@anonymous234 przyganiał kocioł garnkowi.
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@bIakeyrat I like the wild west nature of the internet as much as the next guy, but wouldn't you admit that the days of "running whatever was on that floppy some cool guy handed to you" are over?
GDPR might be a moderate pain to implement, but if it has a chance to increase the general public's awareness of how their private data is used online, then I'll do it even if it means they'll be dragged kicking and screaming into it.
I used to dismiss my parents' warnings about giving out my info to strangers on the internet, but that was back then... Things have changed.
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@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
but if it has a chance to increase the general public's awareness of how their private data is used online
You're so cute.
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@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
giving out my info to strangers on the internet
Hi! I'm @Tsaukpaetra. To my knowledge, I'm the only one with that name, Internet or otherwise (somehow). Behold me!
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@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@bIakeyrat I like the wild west nature of the internet as much as the next guy, but wouldn't you admit that the days of "running whatever was on that floppy some cool guy handed to you" are over?
Yes. Just this week I criticized some Lunix site that told people to run random-ass scripts from a website with admin privileges. I don't see how that's related to GDPR.
@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
GDPR might be a moderate pain to implement, but if it has a chance to increase the general public's awareness of how their private data is used online, then I'll do it even if it means they'll be dragged kicking and screaming into it.
That's not even the issue I'm raising. Euro-weenies can do anything they like on the shitty Euro-web.
The problem with this legislation is if I'm in the US and I specifically don't want to deal with anybody in Europe, and my site gives zero indication that I'm willing to deal with anybody in Europe, I can still get hit by a huge fine. Even though fuck Europe.
So my only way to alleviate this risk is to literally do my damnedest to prevent Euro-boogers from even viewing my site with IP blocks or similar. (Oh, and if I miss one by accident, BAM, it's fine time. Even if I tried my hardest.) Is that the intention? Because that's what's going to happen. Everybody in the world has to do this extra work to stop from getting fines from Euro-dickholes, everybody in the world. Meanwhile, the average Euro-ass can't view his favorite websites anymore, because oh look they were all based in the US. Everybody loses. Just like with the cookie bullshit the EU was forcing on everyone before. Does Europe have any laws that aren't pants-on-head retarded?
Oh and BTW: people VOLUNTEER their data to Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. They're not tied-down and forced to hand over their family photos kicking and screaming. I don't see how this legislation is going to change any of that.
@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
I used to dismiss my parents' warnings about giving out my info to strangers on the internet, but that was back then... Things have changed.
The Internet I grew up with is one where everybody used a psuedonym. It's only "recently" (meaning back to the mid-00s or so) that sites have been demanding real names. Fuck those sites. I give them the psuedonym anyway.
Dickhole newcomers made the Internet the place where you're expected to give your real name, not people like me who grew up with it. And it was a stupid idea. If it were up to people like me, none of these idiot problems would exist in the first place.
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@pjh said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Trolleybus Garage seen by registered users only?
Do you really think our toxicity is limited to the Garbage you shit-sucking cockhole. I hope you get raped by a stuffed gorilla.
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@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
The problem with this legislation is if I'm in the US and I specifically don't want to deal with anybody in Europe, and my site gives zero indication that I'm willing to deal with anybody in Europe, I can still get hit by a huge fine.
Look at us. We're the world (cyber) police now.
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@lorne-kates said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@pjh said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Trolleybus Garage seen by registered users only?
Do you really think our toxicity is limited to the Garbage you shit-sucking cockhole. I hope you get raped by a stuffed gorilla.
Compared to Garage, the rest of the forum is a textbook example of how a perfect community should engage in civil discourse.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
giving out my info to strangers on the internet
Hi! I'm @Tsaukpaetra. To my knowledge, I'm the only one with that name, Internet or otherwise (somehow). Behold me!
You made me google your username. I have just one word for you:
Useful*
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@tsaukpaetra said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@julianlam said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
giving out my info to strangers on the internet
Hi! I'm @Tsaukpaetra. To my knowledge, I'm the only one with that name, Internet or otherwise (somehow). Behold me!
You made me google your username. I have just one word for you:
Useful*
Yeah, I'm waiting for the day when my password (which is only one character off from the one that haveibeenpwned knows has been discovered) gets cracked. That will be... fun.
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@gąska Careful, that's a slur around here.
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@pie_flavor "google"?
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
has went
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@tsaukpaetra you prefer military discussion?
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@gąska said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@tsaukpaetra you prefer military discussion?
Nah, discussion is sometimes more fun.