4d ago

Did you ever delete a google account?

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.
  
  Self host ALL the things. I know where all my pics and docs reside right here in my house.
  
  That is a fair statement. In today’s world, it’s the only truly safe option.
  However, it’s not always realistic for some people to do… for various reasons.
  
  Yeah, though with things like the fediverse, generations that where born into the tech world (internet only really started to be a thing around high school for me, but my kids have never used dial up) and small cheap systems like raspberry pi I expect it'll get much easier and hopefully more common.
  
  What are the favorites in your self hosting stack?
  
  Hard to say, things like Nextcloud, Immich, Emby, and Mealie probably get the most exercise, but being a tech person some of the more interesting are things like Security Onion and some of the infrastructure tools.

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