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Thoughts on deleting my Microsoft account, including my Minecraft license? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I haven't played Minecraft since 2015, but I get the feeling I might again in the new few years as I wanna find new hobbies. I know that game has changed a whole lot but I don't have any official online data on it.

I've had this Microsoft account for over a decade and its probably full of personal information that I wanna let go of, I've already exported all my data. I would need to pay $30 for another copy of Minecraft, same price I paid in 2013. I just did a bunch of searching and its not possible to transfer my Minecraft license to another account.

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nothing will unharvest your data. Do your best moving forward.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Take this opportunity to prune your Microsoft data and inject false information. Become a trans man liberal vegan who thinks Trump is great for privacy. Algorithm does need good data after all.

Deletion is probably not necessary. People change all the time, let the computer think you changed into something else.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Don't waste your time with that. Do something useful.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately this is pretty much useless. They collect so much data from so many people that they will simply not use your data for training.

They will continue to sell it though.