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I wanted to delete my old oppo id account, and to do that I'll need to login into it, but I don't know the password.

Password reset requires saying when the account was created (month and year) and "tech support" can't help here either.

Is it legal to block / hide account deletion behind login in European countries? GDPR (and polish RODO) both talk about a right to data deletion, which in this case, I believe, isn't respected.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 years ago

But spoofing doesn't allow a 2 way conversation. Confirming the email should be enough

[–] pacjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's just how it is. If you try hard enough everything can be spoofed. You can also try guessing someone's password and creation date of an account. This is not the issue here.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

The issue is with support not giving you an adequate account recovery method, they're correct about validating ownership of the account tho.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Email (on domains without DKIM and SPF at least) can be spoofed so easily, you could literally do it with on-board tools and a few lines of typing though. It is literally just sending an email that has your email address in the From header.