Google’s new storage policy will delete account data after two years of inactivity
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Dec 2020
OOO!
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- nightmare
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- 17 Dec 2020
Google is getting greedy. No more benefits and less free stuff from now on. At least registration is still free, for now.
Google 2004: From private “invitation-only” to 1 Bln users worldwide!
Google 2020: From billion users worldwide to private “invitation-only"
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Dec 2020
I don't think people will be inactive for two years. You can just sign in and sign out to prevent the deletion.
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- Samath N8 808 owner
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- 17 Dec 2020
Peter, 17 Dec 2020Ha, facebook will never do that, they will realize that the... moreI believe things might have changed after European GDPR...
Why not give it a try again? Try to delete now...
To the best of my knowledge there's some account deletion procedure.
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- Samath N8 808 owner
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- 17 Dec 2020
nooneinpart, 17 Dec 2020The cost of providing storage is probably starting to overc... moreYou're highly likely to be right...
Their last decision was to make Photos storage limited and with lower resolution (3.15 MP~). And all they have about us is probably cat and dog and family photos.
It seems the system is collapsing and they're managing it for now.
About time the NSA front end company realised that they can't have unlimited storage... and people power still exists.
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- nooneinpart
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- 17 Dec 2020
AnonD-923722, 17 Dec 2020The reason they said it was because too much useless users ... moreThe cost of providing storage is probably starting to overcome the profit they get from you providing your data by using their services.
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- Peter
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- 17 Dec 2020
Anna, 17 Dec 2020Facebook should implement such storage policy immediately. ... moreHa, facebook will never do that, they will realize that their account members are not a great as they report they are. Facebook only deactivate accounts. I tried to delete my account 6 years ago and it was not possible. If I input my email into facebook sign up it is still possible to access my account. Wish it was completed deleted as I absolutely do not want that facebook account.
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Dec 2020
Anna, 17 Dec 2020Facebook should implement such storage policy immediately. ... moreAnd what good will that do for Facebook? Remember that it is a social networking website.
- YUKI93
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- 17 Dec 2020
I actually like this idea. Out of all Google services mentioned in the article, I only use Drive and Photos.
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- abigfanoftechs
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- 17 Dec 2020
This is a reasonable approach.
If you hadn't used your FREE account at least once in 2 years, it's unlikely you'll ever need it again. However, if it's a PAID account then Google shouldn't delete it. For example, I pay monhtly for my Google One subscription; Google shouldn't delete my account.
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Dec 2020
Well, guess i'm going back to DVDs for long term storage.
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Dec 2020
AnonD-923722, 17 Dec 2020The reason they said it was because too much useless users ... moreThey need to make room so they can collect more user data.
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- Anna
- u15
- 17 Dec 2020
Facebook should implement such storage policy immediately. Most of users had created new account on FaceBook in early years just out of curiosity. After 2015, most of them were shifted to WhatsApp and had stopped using FaceBook. So their accounts are anyway inactive now.
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- AnonD-923722
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- 17 Dec 2020
The reason they said it was because too much useless users that aren't active, that's true. But i think the main obvious reason is that Google's storage is reaching its limits, maybe?
