Privacy Concerns

Privacy concerns

Whenever a post is made in support section, you needed to provide your website with issues. It’s essential to provide fast support.
But there’s no way to delete or hide the sites afterwards. You can’t delete post, edit history is viewable by everyone

I feel like this is a privacy issue. Hope something will be done :white_check_mark:

You can just make a new temporarily site in your hosting account if its such a big issue everyone knows about your site.

And why would you delete posts? Someone may bookmark it for later use/link it in another discussion here as an answer. And i dont think edit history is that big of a problem anyway.

After all, I dont think you would upload your precise location, house adress, bank account information and stuff like that. It’s just a website link. And you can always delete the website and make a new one in your hosting account, since website files are not deleted.

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Being able to delete the content one user uploaded is a GDPR requirement

Slight misunderstanding. Under GDPR you don’t have the right to delete your own posts. You do have the right to request that some or all of your personal data be removed. However, this only relates to personal information, not general forum posts.

I’ve spent far too long studying this as part of my time in complaints with a big data company haha.

This has been raised before, when there was someone attacking peoples websites from links on the forum.

Ultimaitly though, in a lot of cases, we need to see the page to be able to help debug the problem.

One potential solution is to use a temporary URL generator like this: https://www.temporary-url.com to make a temp url, that can be protected with a capture or URL, and times out.

For example, Temporary URL will link to my site for the next 30 minutes. after which it will stop working

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Being able to delete your URL is not a GDPR requirement. The GDPR governs personal data, and a URL is not personal data.

If you delete your client area profile, your forum profile will be anonymized too, but your topics and posts will remain as is.

Please understand that the moment you published your website URL, the URL become public, and has been available for anyone to see and access, and I can guarantee you that your website URL has already been found, stored and accessed by bots and crawlers. So I’m not sure what is the actual problem you’re looking to solve by deleting your URL, but I can tell you that most of the damage has been done already, and won’t be fixed by hiding the URL at this point.

You’re not required to post here and not required to share your URL. You have to weigh the pros and cons on that before posting.

Yes, that’s indeed a very good solution. I wasn’t aware of the existence of that website, but building something similar to it has been on my list for a while now.

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Just ask to delete your account here and all your messages will be removed.
@dan3008 Will use that https://www.temporary-url.com/

No, that is not correct. Your account’s username and profile picture will become anonymous, but your messages will not be deleted, and that includes any website URLs.
For future reference, please try to double check potential solutions before sharing them, because suggestions like that could be problematic if somebody followed them with the wrong expectations.

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