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Is making your account private the only option to prevent sales?

I think you have to actually cancel your account in order to not have your content sold out from under you.

You have to delete your content, and then delete your account, BEFORE the policy comes into affect. With the way things are worded apparently, if done afterwards, they can still keep data on their servers even if your account is gone.