Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December::undefined
I see it’s normal for me. If an account is inactive, the user perhaps has created another account or not using Google services anymore its money saving if we consider all personal data, ie 15 Gb per user, which are stored and maintained without reason.
Yeah, people went ape shit when they deleted YouTube accounts that weren’t active for years. If you don’t use something and aren’t paying for it, what right do you have to be like “keep this around, even though I’m not using it and it costs you money”?
The downside is that Google won’t let you keep them active without jumping through hoops
What happens if someone is in prison for a few years and can’t access their email?
If that’s the case. They probably wouldn’t know this. And if they eventually do?… they probably forgot their passwords.
The good news, as others said is that Google claims that Youtube channels wont be affected, however I aasume that over time they’l go that rought as more people start to stream in 8k or beyond. At some point they are going to have to delete older content as hosting it all isn’t cheap. As big they are Google can only go so far for preservation when they keep boosting streaming video quality options.
Nah, newer content is significantly more costly than older content, specially as Google can simply decide to show ads regardless.
Old YouTube content is what? 480p? 720p at most? They have already re-encoded their entire video library, it’s super efficient. The real storage hogs are the modern 4K, 8K, HDR, 60 FPS video files.
the point is… are they going to rid of old content from an erra that less people remenber or current content that increasingly more people are likely to watch willingly to get ad revenue.
in order to save on costs they are wanting to rid of older content ultamately one year of videos on Youtube can easily save gbs of storage and costs, right now they are starting with gmail but at some point I predict they’l adopt it to Youtube.
Good, fuck Google.
Yeah “fuck these guys for trying to save money by cleaning up stuff that hasn’t been used in years!”/s
They’re just doing what any other company would do.
If you could engage whatever functioning synapses you may possess, you might realize that this indicates that fewer people are using Google shit.
Or people are just creating new accounts because they didn’t like the name of the old one, you bozo.
Uh, no, it means that it’s been 20 years. People have made new accounts, moved organisations, gotten old, and just plain died.
1.8 billion people have a Gmail account. One in five people - not email users, people. “Millions” of accounts being deleted is not even a significant number.
Data harvested. Time to move on.
