Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week (www.forbes.com)

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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week::Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.

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[-] [email protected] 119 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ACCOUNTS WITH TWO YEARS OF INACTIVITY

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

OKAY THANKS X

[-] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago

INACTIVE ACCOUNTS

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

FYI it's for inactive accounts, not your content from 10 years ago.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

might need to check in on my 5+ alt accounts

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I have 15. Is that excessive?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

How did you phone verify them?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

Right?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Click bait headline.

[+] [email protected] -42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

edit lol keep weeping for a trillion dollar company. i don't use this garbage, i have no files i'm losing.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The never just deleted data without a plan for you to download it. Your photos aren't going anywhere. If by some chance Google goes out of business you'll have ample time to download them.

Unless you're saving your own shit on multiple disks and putting copies of shit in multiple places, Google photos is probably the safest spot on the planet for them.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Mail likely isn’t going anywhere. A lot of corporations rely on Google workspace.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

So dead people mostly.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Your email account isn't a backup store.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Are you Google shareholder? Tell them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's RGPD laws.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Or GDPR in the English speaking world.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oops forgot to translate it lol.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Wahhhhhhhhhhh

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