A Gravatar, a Globally Recognized Avatar, is a fine thing for all prolific bloggers and comment writers. For those who created a Gravatar but then decided out of manyfold reasons to delete it, there is a bad and a good news. The bad news first: it can’t be done! The good news: it can still be done, at least almost!

1. Log into your Gravatar Account
2. Under “My Profile”, remove all entries (only the display name can not be changed, here you can enter anything)
3. Goto “My Gravatars”. First delete the account image, if you already assigned one. Then delete as well the image itself in the area below.
4. To remove the connection to your own mail address you have to trick a bit. Search for a provider of so called “one way email” or “disposable email” and create in best case a really long nonsense mail address and enter it into the “Add a new email” field in your Gravatar account. You will receive a confirmation mail to your disposable mailbox that you confirm and your new mail will be available in the Gravatar account.
5. Select it and click on “Make primary”.
6. Now you can delete your precious real email address, because only the primary mail is undeletable.
7. As a last step you find under “My Profile” in the left menu at the top “View Profile” where you can select “Hide my profile”.

With this workaround you didn’t really delete your Gravatar account, but it is not running on your own mail address any longer and contains absolutely no information about you.

Was this trick helpful? Did you find other possibilities? Did the system change and it is not working any longer in this way (I found it out quite a while ago and just now translated it into english)? Please share with us and the other readers.