cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35171067

Have you ever deleted a google account before? Any Experiences? What should one know about this? Do you trust them to really delete everything?

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I have deleted a lot of google accounts. No, I don’t trust them to delete everything. That’s why I take care of what I put in that account. I also delete everything myself - even though I know, I can’t be sure that google deleted it too…

    A few times I filled up the account with hard encrypted big files of nonsense… just to confuse the enemy. :-)

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
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    Deleted my google account about 10 years ago. No “experiences” to speak of, you just have to go in knowing that you’ll lose online access to everything Google: mail, calendar, youtube, etc. But that’s what Google Takeout is for.

    As for your last question: No, I don’t. Lack of trust is why is wiped my Google account in the first place.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They’d never delete it. They will just mark it as inactive so you won’t see it, but their ai bots will.

  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Does it matter if you trust them to delete everything? What you do if they didn’t?