If you go that route, at least change the password to some random string to lock yourself out.

But that's not leaving either. Your posts are still out there, and so is your account. In fact, no one except you would know you left.

There is a reason why the EU mandated the right to deletion.

> If you go that route, at least change the password to some random string to lock yourself out.

I do that once in a while when I find myself wasting too much time participating here. It increases the friction quite a bit, but eventually I cave and recover the password.

If you really want to be serious about it, have to change the email address first, then toss the keys to that.

Good old "how to stop smoking?" "just stop smoking"

What if there's a forward proxy listening on 127.0.0.1

I don't run mine on 127.0.0.1 but that address is a very popular default

You're supposed to use 0.0.0.0 for site blocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.0.0.0

127.0.0.2

i think it would be useful to distinguish between addiction and coercion.

if you can't leave a cult, it's coercion. if you can't leave hackernews, it's addiction.