Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December

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• Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fortunately, they at least aren’t deleting accounts with YouTube videos “at this time”

  I still backed up the videos from a deceased friend’s channel just in case- but I’m glad his content will still be there.

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• GrapesOfAss@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What happens if someone is in prison for a few years and can’t access their email?

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a good reminder to designate someone access to your accounts if you don’t log in after a set amount of time (and now less than 2 years). If you die and someone is relying on you to pay the bills or whatnot, they will need access to that information.

    You can also have it set up so that all your data is wiped.

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  • pazzeda@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What kind of prison doesn’t have a computer that you can use every now and then?

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    • jackoneill@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unless you have a smuggled device you aren’t getting access to gmail or any other email in prison. They have their own monitored communication systems that charge the inmate absurd amounts of money to use.

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    • systemguy_64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think they have open internet? Gmail?

      Looked it up, nope, some shitty pay message bullsit system.

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  • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If that’s the case. They probably wouldn’t know this. And if they eventually do?… they probably forgot their passwords.

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• sronweb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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”?

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The downside is that Google won’t let you keep them active without jumping through hoops

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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”.

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• rob299@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The good news, as others said is that Google claims that Youtube channels wont be affected, however I aasume that over time they’l go that rought as more people start to stream in 8k or beyond. At some point they are going to have to delete older content as hosting it all isn’t cheap. As big they are Google can only go so far for preservation when they keep boosting streaming video quality options.

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  • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, newer content is significantly more costly than older content, specially as Google can simply decide to show ads regardless.

    Old YouTube content is what? 480p? 720p at most? They have already re-encoded their entire video library, it’s super efficient. The real storage hogs are the modern 4K, 8K, HDR, 60 FPS video files.

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    • rob299@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the point is… are they going to rid of old content from an erra that less people remenber or current content that increasingly more people are likely to watch willingly to get ad revenue.

      in order to save on costs they are wanting to rid of older content ultamately one year of videos on Youtube can easily save gbs of storage and costs, right now they are starting with gmail but at some point I predict they’l adopt it to Youtube.

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• cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good, fuck Google.

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah “fuck these guys for trying to save money by cleaning up stuff that hasn’t been used in years!”/s

    They’re just doing what any other company would do.

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    • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you could engage whatever functioning synapses you may possess, you might realize that this indicates that fewer people are using Google shit.

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• drkt@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What timing! I just deleted mine a week ago.

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