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If you haven't used your $whatever in a year, why do you want to use it now? Replace $whatever with whatever you want and you'll see how absurd this question is
by superkuh 3mo ago
If you haven't used your $whatever in a year, why do you want to use it now? Replace $whatever with whatever you want and you'll see how absurd this question is.
- andsoitis 3mo agoI really don’t think it absurd. What’s an example where a Google account is important to you but you haven’t used it in a year?
- AngryData 3mo agoI barely use my gmail that often. But I still need an email for password recovery.
- dpark 3mo agoI would personally not want my account recovery tied to an account I rarely use. That seems full of unnecessary risk. What if you forget that Gmail password? What if it’s compromised and you don’t even notice for almost a year? What if Google decides to change their retention for unused accounts to just 6 months?
- AngryData 3mo agoI actually had my gmail's backup email at yahoo recycled and I had to remake that account. But genrally I consider these email accounts as my master key to all my other accounts. It has a master password that I am certain I could not lose except simultaneous major head trama and destruction of all my belongings. If that email was lost, yeah I could be screwed out of other accounts. But no security system is perfect.
- prisondroid 3mo agoI recently got out of prison, it's not really practical to keep logging into Google from prison, especially with 2fa enabled.
- dpark 3mo ago“If you haven't used your dirty tissue in a year, why do you want to use it now?” “If you haven't used your ham sandwich in a year, why do you want to use it now?” “If you haven't used your receipt in a year, why do you want to use it now?” Ah, yes. I see what you mean. Truly absurd.
- soraminazuki 3mo agoHaha, smart. But those quotes still don't justify me taking away your one year old ham sandwich.
- dpark 3mo agoIf you leave your ham sandwich in the office fridge for a single week, anyone is justified in throwing it away. The trouble is you think that you are in possession of a ham sandwich that Google is taking away when in reality you’ve left your ham sandwich in Google’s fridge and they are sick of storing the obviously-abandoned sandwich for you. See also: https://xkcd.com/1150/ https://xkcd.com/1150/
- soraminazuki 3mo agoExcept it's just an excuse to make everyone surrender their phone numbers as one more way to tie people to their real identities. You try hard to paint one of the wealthiest companies in the world as some kind of victim, when in reality it's them that used Gmail as a trojan horse to make people create Google accounts so that they can spy on everyone online, and increasingly in the real world too. Also contrary to your insinuation that I'm an entitled jerk trying to rip off a trillion dollar company, I de-Googled a long time ago. Because I know they're the company that lets their clueless robots brand desperate parents trying to cure their children as child predators, punishes them by taking away the key to their entire digital lives, and worse, doubles down and continues to defame them when proven wrong [1]. But it's not fair to fault people who still depend on Google. Lack of informed consent, reinforced by dark patterns and justified with "user-friendliness" BS is what drew people in. Peer pressure also forces people to create accounts when they otherwise wouldn't have. I just have zero tolerance for corporate cheerleaders who justify this sort of thing by blaming the victim in the most condescending way possible. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805