Have you ever deleted a google account before? Any Experiences? What should one know about this? Do you trust them to really delete everything?
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I’ve deleted multiple Google accounts in the past. The experience was pretty straight forward. Nothing out of the ordinary that I remember.
I went through and deleted everything first… photos, docs, history, etc. If I recall, I tried to delete any info not required for the account. I think at the time I may have address info that I removed.
Walked through the process and account was deleted.
Do I trust them to delete everything? No, which is why I did what I could before removing the account. Also, that account really won’t be deleted, it will be marked as such and you can’t reuse your Gmail address but the actual account will still be around.
Most companies are like that… I said most, please don’t flame me about all the companies that actually remove accounts 😆
If you have an account and want to delete it, clean it up first, wait a bit, then follow the process. Not much else you can really do.
your account will only be marked as such
Yeah big databases systems on google scale work like this I guess 😔. Best thing to do is delete that shit and hope for the best I guess.
Sadly, hoping for the best is the only viable option these days.
Do you trust them to really delete everything?
Or even anything?
Mine has been around for ages and I’m itching to delete it. But sometimes it comes in handy with an edge case where I do need a non-work Google account. I’m of the opinion that they’ll keep some sort of shadow profile kicking around after I delete the account, but it’ll at least feel liberating when I do.
Yeah. I’m not sure if they deleted everything but at least I can disconnect myself from further tracking by google.
Keeping your google account can be helpful if you want to follow this strategy:
- Register on Signal using your phone number
- Port your phone number to google voice ($20 transfer fee but free after that; additionally while its privacy sucks, google is great for security)
- Change the settings so that every caller is sent to voice mail
- Use mysudo and cloaked for VoIP numbers
- Set up Signal on a new device (ideally a grapheneos pixel)
- Use a calyx institute hotspot for data or buy a sim card with cash
Yes, no big deal.
Did data checkout before this way I brought my then YouTube videos to my PeerTube server.
Yes I do believe they deleted my data because with GDPR I’d they did not the fine would be huge. Even if they didn’t its outdated anyway.
