>The company pitches this as a way to prevent spam. The blog post says that "abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step

>The company pitches this as a way to prevent spam. The blog post says that "abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up," and once they get compromised, they become vectors for spam and identity theft. Deleting old accounts and freeing up storage is also probably a good way to cut costs, Just say it’s to cut costs, preventing spam has nothing to do with it, a compromised account used for spam and identity theft, is NOT an inactive one.. and having 2FA won’t prevent that either so I don’t know why google is trying to confuse the readers/users.