Account Deletion

It's ironical - *like the wild west this place is now - as to whom or what has access/control of our personal data is anyone's guess, and what they're allowed to do with it; well, the 'Mortal Man' (likes of me 😴 is clueless) ... even those who know a thing or two about privacy laws (posters on this site), well, even they don't seem to know.. But one would expect Boards.ie to know this, yet they pretty much claim they're clueless about the privacy/data/GDPR connotations 😏

*The more bureaucracy/laws/uncertainty - and there's plenty of laws, legalities, and loopholes that can hardly be understood (but certainly be expoited 😒) - that there are in place; and the various jurisdictions of the Actors (Boards, Vanilla and fq knows who else) lends itself being exactly wild west-like..

Some clarification please... We're (or were) happy to have the service of this discussion forum, and just because it's by and large free (in the monetary sense) , it doesn't mean that that should diminish our "right to complain" (despite what some posters maintain)... The data and analytics used in assessing our info via cookies etc is of benefit to someone regards marketing/ads targeting, so even if we aren't/weren't paying for it, there's definitely a quid pro quo going on...

Just at least tell us how to delete our accounts (instead of that link on how to merely 'close account' ffs ) , and have our posts "anonymized" (at the very least), as was the case just over a month ago... That still leaves our Personal profile info, which most likely wasn't much of a concern/issue for posters when previously closing their accounts, as there was no 'Foreign Parties' involved in the mix then.. Not many posters are going to close their accounts now though, owing to common sense, as we know right well that our private information will pretty much be out in the ether. Seems that some who want to close their account will be reluctantly content to do so, if the post anonymization thingy is utilised, but most feel compelled to keep their account open 'under duress', so we're waiting until we hear more (drip drip - will take several more months would be my guess, before we even get close to an acceptable amount of illumination on these worrying issues)

They effectively have us 'over a barrel' while they're 'sorting stuff out' (yeah right, they be trying to exploit any and all avenues so as to be able to hold onto as much of our info as possible - cos that's no doubt high up on Vanilla's priorities leastways, imho).

Lucky for me I never sent/received many PMs, or posted much sensitive info ie in PI, but there's major concern for many who would have, and then there's the concern over what can be accessed from the 'Talk To' forums on top of all that 😲 (and fuq knows what else, that most of us haven't even considered)..

I hate posting long posts, as it takes so bloody long, and me post is most likely incomprehensible, as I aint as succinct as I like to be.... I just wanted to vent, but in the time it took to write this the automatic 'Save Draft' function kicked in (more than once)..... this was supposed to be a good thing, and it was believed until this clusterfuk kicked in... 'Save Draft' = more info in the ether smh

And I aint buying this 'babe in the woods' routine neither, ie Vanilla are/were inept/not up to the 'massive undertaking' and/or that they took Boards for mugs... As the saying goes - "there's two of them in it"....