About this site

What is Delete Anything?

An independent site with step-by-step guides for permanently deleting accounts on major platforms. Every guide leads with the working link and the exact steps, and records the date its instructions were last checked.

Why this exists

Searching how to delete an account usually returns a 2,000-word article that buries the answer, or a link that quietly stopped working two years ago. Instagram's old one-click deletion URL is the clearest example: it now redirects to a help article, yet guides across the web still point at it.

Every page here opens with the answer. No preamble, no signup, no newsletter gate.

How the guides are checked

Steps are verified against each platform's own help documentation, not copied from other guides. When a page has been checked, it says so, with the date: "Sources last reviewed [date]". When it has not been checked, it says nothing — rather than claiming a check that never happened.

That verification has repeatedly contradicted the popular wisdom. Pinterest gives you 7 days, not 30. LinkedIn gives 14, and reopening still loses your endorsements. Snapchat's data export window closes at 30 days even though deletion takes 60. Deleting Threads locks you out of rejoining for 90 days.

What this site is not

How the site makes money

Advertising, and in some sections affiliate links. Where a page carries affiliate links it says so on that page — the alternatives page currently carries none, and says as much.

Recommendations are not sold. Several services listed on this site are nonprofits with no referral programme at all, which is precisely why they are worth recommending.

Who writes it

One person: Otabek Mamadaliev. There is no editorial team and no syndicated content, which is worth saying plainly because a site of step-by-step instructions written by an anonymous "we" gives you no way to judge whether anyone actually followed the steps.

The claim is method rather than authority. I do not work for any of the platforms described here, nothing on this site is legal advice, and where something could not be confirmed the page says so instead of guessing. How these guides are checked sets out what a check actually consists of, and what the date on a page does and does not promise.

What you will not find here

Why the details matter

Deleting an account is one of the few irreversible things an ordinary person does online, and the cost of a wrong instruction is not an inconvenience — it is a photo library, a game collection, a decade of professional contacts, or a subscription that carries on billing an account you can no longer log into.

That is why these guides spend as much space on what not to do as on the steps: cancel at the store rather than in the app, export before you start rather than after, sign out everywhere before a grace period begins, hand over the server or the workspace or the guild before it becomes someone else's problem. Those are the parts other guides skip, and they are the parts people write to us about afterwards.

Corrections

If a set of steps has stopped working, or a platform has changed something, please tell us — that feedback is more useful than anything else you could send. Email info@deleteanything.com with the platform and the step where the path diverged from what you saw.

We would rather hear that a page is wrong than leave someone stuck halfway through deleting their account.