Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week

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• Companion1666@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  #ACCOUNTS WITH TWO YEARS OF INACTIVITY

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OKAY THANKS X

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  INACTIVE ACCOUNTS

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FYI it’s for inactive accoy, not your content from 10 years ago.

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• redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  might need to check in on my 5+ alt accounts

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  • Tom_bishop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have 15. Is that excessive?

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    • redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How did you phone verify them?

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool.so the rest of us will get more space, right?

  Right?

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• _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  don’t care that it’s for inactive accounts, this is a disgusting purge of culture. spam email is one thing but imagine all the literal irreplaceable memories stored. don’t give a shit about their storage costs, it’s google. sort it the fuck out.

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  • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m all for bashing them for their shitty practices, but let’s be honest here. If you care about your memories, all you have to do is login once and they’re safe. If that’s unreasonable, I think that’s a you problem.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s also Google. You probably shouldn’t put anything on it that you’re not expecting to go away in a few years when the service shuts down.

      At the very least, have a spare copy somewhere that isn’t likely to get wiped out.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The EU is forcing them to do this as part of the GDPR. Google isn’t allowed to store personal data for longer than is required, and an account that’s been inactive for 2 years is very likely an account that will never be accessed again. Therefore, Google has no legitimate purpose to store that data, ergo they must delete it.

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    • Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So dead people mostly.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you don’t care to login in two years, maybe the memories are not that irreplacable…

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your email account isn’t a backup store.

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  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wahhhhhhhhhhh

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  • Zeroxxx@lemmy.my.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you Google shareholder? Tell them.

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• nh5@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still have gmail accounts from 15 years ago that were created by me but Google refuses to let me log into because it doesn’t believe im logging in from a known location. Guess they are getting deleted next week. I hate this company.

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• Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Click bait headline.

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