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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week::Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.

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[-] slumberlust@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago

What a shit clickbait headline. They are removing inactive accounts not old content.

[-] KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca -3 points 11 months ago

I assumed such from the title. It could be worded better, but it's pretty obvious what was happening.

[-] Spastickyle@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Is there any way I can see a list of all accounts associated with my main account? I remember seeing an email from corporate saying they would warn us before deleting but I haven't seen any warning and I know I have some inactive.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

All this fuzz with adds, pushing people into premium services and increasing prices of services makes me think, could data hoarding have stopped being as profitable as it once was?

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I would think it's a matter of stale data. If they delete it all, people may create new accounts, and re-upload what's actually important (or download what's important), giving Google more data points.

Win/win for Google.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
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