This list of accounts I deleted is a follow‑up to my previous post from 2019.

The link on the name of the service leads to a way to delete the related account. https://justdeleteme.xyz/ lists how to do such a thing for many websites.

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NB: Because I’ve always been happy with them, I mention alwaysdata several times. All links are affiliation links.

• 23hq: I was not using this account for years and the website feels like it’s dying.

• Dreamhost: This account was hosting miscellaneous things like my websites and the DNS for pompage.net in the past. I finally took the time to insist a lot with the customer support so that they delete my account. It wasn’t easy.

• Ebay: I have not been using their wesbite for a decade or so and a more local alternative appeared in France in the meantime.

• Excite: Don’t laugh. I still somehow had an account there although the reason for doing so has long been lost in my memory; I just happened to stumble on a very old email mentioning this account.

• Foursquare: I haven’t been using this platform for so long; it was about time. I used breadcrumbs instead for my location while traveling. Recommendations came from people I met.

• free.fr: I closed several “Free Access” accounts that have been sleeping for years.

• Goodreads: I discovered how Amazon was actually controlling both distribution and promotion of books through their main website, but also by acquiring services like Goodreads, IMDb or having big stakes in LibraryThing through AbeBooks, among others. I am still looking for open solutions, although Inventaire seems promising, as Open Library has very little comics.

• HostedRedmine: I have set up this account when scouting for a tool to manage a project some years ago, but Redmine is not exactly sexy so the idea died off.

• Hover: I was testing domain providers and settled with alwaysdata which are friendly, easily reachable, reactive, and professional.

• Keybase: Zoom acquired Keybase in May 2020. Considering how Zoom treat their users and how Zoom are influenced by China, there was no way I would continue using this service that I was not relying on much anyway.

• LibraryThing: For the same reasons as GoodReads, plus the fact I was not really using it anymore. I initially used it as part of a provider for BookCatalogue on my smartphone.

• Medium: I opened the account as a test but I stopped using it a few years ago. There was no reason this account should remain open.

• Openwhyd: I tested this music service but it was relying on platforms I didn’t want to support, so I went for Bandcamp instead.

• Uber: Although really convenient for me, the whole idea of controling a mass of users (both drivers and riders) by algorithms and inciting people to hype each other with 5 stars just seemed both ridiculous and dangerous. Gamifying the life of people does not appeal to me as it just plays them instead of making their life better. The fact that some drivers were being put at risk either by law, taxi drivers or fellow drivers also did not make me feel like I was doing the right thing by using this platform.

• Stablehost: Since they have been acquired by Missgroup, I had some terribly frustrating experiences with their services and support. The latter was really confusing and inefficient most of the time. A lot of extra work made me move to some way better options like alwaysdata and self‑hosting.

• Webkey: I tried this service but it did not work with my environment.

• Whatsapp: I used this service for a while as it, like Wechat in China, was sort of a mandatory tool to have in Latin America. I stopped using it in August 2020 for the same reasons as Wechat, as the direction the company was taking clearly wasn’t matching mine. Since then, Facebook shown once more there was no reason to trust them.

And that’s it for those two years. I feel a lot lighter without all this clutter. :)