Why does anyone care to delete their account? Yes, so it’s trailing unused out in the wind, who really cares?
I’m sure I’m missing something…so tell me 
Just guessing here, likely to kill the saved email account and other personal info.
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Just good web hygiene.
Have a play with haveibeenpwned.com to see the potential implications of not practising good web hygiene.
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Yeah, it’s not a bad idea, just surprised to see so many of them.
I tend to use several classes of passwords (ie I don’t care, I care a little, I require a unique randomized password for each site, etc), never had anything happen yet that affected me in any way that I’ve ever known.
You’ve never received any email spam/scam?
Following a data breach, that’s the very least you can expect.
Hah, I think spam is a way of life…yes, of course I’ve received spam. It usually gets autofiltered into the trash.
Frankly it’s no worse than the ad junk that comes in my physical mail box.
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Yeah I tend to agree, sadly. The abundance of chaff that plagues our inboxes.
I’ve made it a habit in more recent years, to supply not just unique passwords per service, but also unique email addresses. There are various ways to achieve this.
What it has made apparent to me, is that spam/scam email is not arbitrary. My unique addresses only start receiving spam/scam emails after the event of a data breach. I immediately know where my data was breached, and therefore where to take action to minimise any further threat (change email, password and/or close that account, etc). If you receive spam/scam emails, I dare say your receiving address has been leaked at some point.
In a recent breach, I started receiving spam within weeks of the breach. Up until that point, I wasn’t aware there had been a breach, because this particular store failed to inform its customers, and to date, still hasn’t informed its customers, despite names, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses being breached. Their reasoning to me when I followed it up was that the breach (and I quote) “does not include sensitive data” 
The lesson: Don’t trust that other people will care about your personal information.
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No, I don’t (trust that they care or want to suffer the embarrassment). I just try to take care of my own interests.
I’m basically a hermit, I keep phone on silent and only return calls that leave VM and seem legit. Same with emails ;0
My approach for over 20 years.
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When a store or business ask for my email or phone number, I tell them to go get fu*ked.
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Some require address/phone number to deliver the products or services…
Similar events happened multiple times in the past but they never informed me.
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It’s bothered me that it’s becoming increasingly mainstream at cafes and restaurants, and likely other settings, to have to scan a QR code, and make the purchase through a web portal, or even to join a queue! These inevitably have mandatory fields, like email and phone number, and won’t let you proceed without them.
When I visited Singapore earlier this year, it shocked me how “normal” this had become there. Customer service has taken a real dive. Representatives are little more than tech support directing you to scan a QR code.
I’m not interested in supporting those sorts of practices. Who needs my email address and phone number, in order to prepare a coffee?! 
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I guess email aliases and virtual phone numbers are the solutions in such situations.
How do I know that putting my email in this search bar isn’t going to give it to some nefarious actor?
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A fair question. You might try it with an old email address that already receives a bucket load of spam, because that’s the worst that could happen.
It was created by Troy Hunt, a white hack hacker. It has a good reputation, but I would count it a sensible precaution to question where we enter our details 
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Exactly, I’ve mentioned my concerns here:
Yer had a store try tell me I needed it give it to get a recept I walked out the shop and bought the same thing in the shop next to it
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@dbarronoss
funny you should ask. I just a did a big purge out of my life recently of everything I could remember: patreon, job sites, places I no longer enjoyed…some were immediate, some acct deletions took 6 months. Like @Bink said “good hygiene” and I believe in it.
TIME MACHINE HOT TUB BACK TO VICAR IN THE 90’s: “wow, internet so cool, I want to join everything and talk to everybody far freaking out man theres a website for the Tekken game even! and a place called Limewire” -----translation: an era of bad hygeine and I cant even remember all what I joined…
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The golden years, I used to go to an after school program at the uni just to use their internet
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