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by djur 1522 days ago
It seems to me that services that pretend to delete data but don't actually do it are usually subject to criticism on Hacker News, not praise.
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The issue tend to be services who are not upfront about it. "This is potentially really damaging, so in case it's a mistake we'll just hide it for 24 hours during which you can undo" or something to that effect would be sufficient.
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