Title: About Uninstalling this plugin
Last modified: May 31, 2018

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# About Uninstalling this plugin

 *  Resolved [solid_snake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solid_snake/)
 * (@solid_snake)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-uninstalling-this-plugin/)
 * Hello!
 * I am about to uninstall this plugin. However, will simply deactivating and deleting
   this plugin will remove all the kind of data it has stored in our database?
 * Please let me know!
 * Thanks!
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by [solid_snake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solid_snake/).

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 *  [Tracy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmmbecker/)
 * (@tmmbecker)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-uninstalling-this-plugin/#post-10367049)
 * Hi [@solid_snake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solid_snake/),
 * > will simply deactivating and deleting this plugin will remove all the kind 
   > of data it has stored in our database?
 * It will. When you delete the Akismet plugin, all information will be removed 
   from your database.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Stephane Daury (stephdau)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephdau/)
 * (@stephdau)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-uninstalling-this-plugin/#post-10370609)
 * Actually, that’s not technically true: the comment meta associated with Akismet
   will be left in your database, as it is a WordPress-level record of what happened
   to the comment(s) at the time of processing. Clearing that would leave a hole
   in your site’s processing history that would then leave you helpless, should 
   you try to trace a comment’s history, and would be an unrequested and undesirabe
   data erasure by the plugin. You, as a site owner, can of course feel free to 
   erase whatever data you feel is necessary.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Stephane Daury (stephdau)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephdau/)
 * (@stephdau)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-uninstalling-this-plugin/#post-10371491)
 * See also: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-gdpr-compatible-8/page/2/#post-10371028](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-gdpr-compatible-8/page/2/#post-10371028)
 *  [Luke Cavanagh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukefiretoss/)
 * (@lukefiretoss)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-uninstalling-this-plugin/#post-10449260)
 * Also running this MySQL query can help.
 * `select * from wp_commentmeta where meta_key like "%akismet_%"`

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