The downside is that Google won’t let you keep them active without jumping through hoops
Comment on Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December
sronweb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see it’s normal for me. If an account is inactive, the user perhaps has created another account or not using Google services anymore its money saving if we consider all personal data, ie 15 Gb per user, which are stored and maintained without reason.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Jumping through hoops?
Merely being logged in while using any of their websites or services any time in the last 3 years is enough to be considered an active account.
Watching a single youtube video or doing 1 Google search or reading a news article or accessing one of those precious files you have saved on their cloud server while logged in once every 3 years is hardly “jumping through hoops”.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It won’t allow you to log back in without adding a phone number, even though it had been used during those three years
They’re just trying to get rid of anonymous accounts
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So what’s the point of such anonymous account? Waiting for 10 more years till policy is changed by some reason or you finally figure out a way how to get a number that’s not tied to your name?
I am surprised they did not have such periodical purges in the past.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a Google Voice number that I set up years ago and never used. They sent me an email saying “you haven’t used this in a while, send one text or make one phone call to keep the number active”.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, people went ape shit when they deleted YouTube accounts that weren’t active for years. If you don’t use something and aren’t paying for it, what right do you have to be like “keep this around, even though I’m not using it and it costs you money”?