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Did you ever delete a google account? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago by helloworld@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah I did. A couple years ago.

The biggest problem was changing my email. Many companies are simply not equipped for such a request.

Some of them actually told me I had to cancel my account and open a new one. Others would send half my emails to the new address and the other half to the old one. So fucking ridiculous.

I moved my email to my own domain, so hopefully I never have to deal with that again.

God help me if I ever have to change my phone number again for all the fucking companies demanding SMS verification.