[aboringusername]

It's a disgrace the GDPR has not made it easier to delete content as easy as it is to generate it. I also think hackernews is a disgrace too, as you cannot edit nor delete your posts here and dang should immediately fix this (or whomevers responsible)

If I want to delete every piece of data from a companies storage (including backups, caches et al) I should be able to do that.

If it is ever proven that data still exists on an individual whose requested full deletion the CEO should be imprisoned for a minimum of one year.

But of course that will never happen and the GDPR is an absolute failure that has done more harm than good.

[throwaway512793]

Well you can delete your Facebook profile, which takes 30 days until all data is removed. But then you also delete your Friend List, the chats, the list of sites you subscribed to, the groups, the events and your Ad profile.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually find it useful sometimes to receive targeted ads. It worked for me often enough such that I noticed products, events or groups that really are interesting to me and which I otherwise probably wouldn’t have found. I recently started browsing YouTube logged in with my profile again and the recommended videos are much better than when I have an incognito browser.

Nevertheless, it must be possible to at least delete your public interactions with one click. I don’t see any business reason for Facebook and Twitter to keep year old posts public.