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.
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.
edit lol keep weeping for a trillion dollar company. i don’t use this garbage, i have no files i’m losing.
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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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.
ACCOUNTS WITH TWO YEARS OF INACTIVITY
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.
edit lol keep weeping for a trillion dollar company. i don’t use this garbage, i have no files i’m losing.
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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.
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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You make a funny point. https://killedbygoogle.com/
But GMail isn’t going anywhere. There are surely very few more valuable places to harvest user data than reading all their emails.
Still big agree. Have a backup. Don’t trust corporations.
Mail likely isn’t going anywhere. A lot of corporations rely on Google workspace.
It’s RGPD laws.
Or GDPR in the English speaking world.
Oops forgot to translate it lol.
Cool. So the rest of us will get more space, right?
Right?
INACTIVE ACCOUNTS