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

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] Companion1666 118 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

ACCOUNTS WITH TWO YEARS OF INACTIVITY

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

OKAY THANKS X

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 77 points 10 months ago

INACTIVE ACCOUNTS

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

might need to check in on my 5+ alt accounts

[–] Tom_bishop 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have 15. Is that excessive?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

How did you phone verify them?

[–] AnUnusualRelic 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

Right?

[–] nh5 8 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Click bait headline.

[+] _number8_ -42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] nyctre 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] T156 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] theherk 7 points 10 months 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.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] CriticalMiss 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gregorech 3 points 10 months ago

So dead people mostly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Your email account isn't a backup store.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Are you Google shareholder? Tell them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's RGPD laws.

[–] aleq 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or GDPR in the English speaking world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oops forgot to translate it lol.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic -2 points 10 months ago

Wahhhhhhhhhhh