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Google to delete inactive accounts starting December
- ryan29 3y agoThere are a couple things i don’t like about this trend. First, I have idle accounts for brand protection. I really dislike being forced to participate in the handle registration gold rush to begin with. Now I’ll have to set aside a day every few months to log in to all of them. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s annoying. Second, if idle email accounts become available for re-registration it might expose some users to account takeovers if they own accounts with email addresses they’ve forgotten about. And, what about people forwarding from accounts they never log into directly? I wouldn’t consider those inactive. Does Google?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoHas Google explicitly stated that re-registration of handles will be a thing? If so, that's incredibly dangerous. I wouldn't consider accounts inactive if they're forwarding mail because there are deletions taking place, which is an active process, meaning you aren't clogging up that account's allocation.
- m3drano 3y agoThe counter argument is hijacking: these accounts are more prone to be stolen and used for spam and impersonation.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoYou can auto-forward g-mail? I have one (not Google) account that I never log into, but a robot pulls all the mail off it, it will show activity.
- saurik 3y agoYes, you definitely can just auto-forward (which I know as that is how I have any of mine set up).
- PretzelPirate 3y agoCan't you set up a single email client to pull from all of your accounts? I imagine that would count as logging in and it would happen automatically.
- rcktmrtn 3y ago> And, what about people forwarding from accounts they never log into directly? I'm basically in this situation, which is why I have been paying for the annual plan. Despite the fact I passionately hate Google. Not sure when if ever I will be comfortable deleting my account entirely.
- SebastianKra 3y agoI feel like this ad from Google is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas 8 years of work for nothing. --- ("Dear Sophie" - about a Father using Gmail as a Diary to share with his Daughter someday)
- qwertyuiop_ 3y agoHope and Change didn’t work out for Google
- ndiddy 3y agoPrimary source: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/ https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-... Notably, this will also impact products such as YouTube and Google Drive. If you have any old YouTube videos you like watching, I would highly recommend downloading them before this change happens.
- bananaportfolio 3y agoIt appears Google spared the MBAs while laying off engineers.
- vivegi 3y agoI used to have a blog on blogger that I posted to between 2010 and 2012. It was the only Google account I ever used. I stopped blogging after that. Never logged into Google either. The last time I tried logging into blogger was several years ago and, Google wanted me to associate a phone number with the account. I abandoned the login for that reason and have never even been there since then. If Google deletes that account, I don't care. I have backed up my posts.
- drones 3y agoDeleting accounts after 2 years inactivity is insane. Is this just data curation for ML? Google hurting for cash? This is going to severely impact the overall youtube experience. There is so much great stuff from music to instructional videos that will just dissapear. So much rediscoved media will be lost to the sands of time. Extremely dissapointing. Tears in the rain :'(