[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Google will delete inactive accounts
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       Tell HN: Google will delete inactive accounts
        
       Bad news for me, I have lots of accounts I set up with forwarding
       back in the way, as a way to keep control of spam. I want to keep
       those accounts as they're important to me even though I didn't sign
       into them.  So I was bummed to receive this message about deletion
       of "inactive" accounts:  https://pastebin.com/fgLUN45V  It makes me
       sad as I consider all my accounts active.
        
       Author : logicallee
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-07-19 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
       | r_singh wrote:
       | I guess one thing I like like about this new net is that many
       | free accounts isn't a normal expectation. I hope it remains this
       | way even when interest rates eventually fall.
       | 
       | Isn't this good because it lowers the barrier of entering
       | businesses like email a little at least? Anyhow I really hope the
       | percentage of people who realise that paying for software is
       | important increases.
       | 
       | What I mean by new net is this phenomenon of needing a cloud
       | account and being tracked to use pretty much all end user
       | software applications and also an increasing number of developer
       | tools (e.g. font awesome). Imagine if every service on the web
       | became paid, it'd be kinda nice and maybe some of our side
       | projects finally become viable haan?
        
         | Spooky23 wrote:
         | I doubt it's helping new market entrants. Folks who collect
         | gmail accounts have the opportunity to pay as well.
        
       | helph67 wrote:
       | Sure they will delete inactive accounts but they will continue to
       | track you, regardless! https://www.techradar.com/news/nearly-
       | half-of-all-online-tra...
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | News from 2 months ago
       | 
       | Some discussion then:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963093
        
       | kccqzy wrote:
       | Why does it mean that these accounts are important to you but you
       | don't sign in?
       | 
       | I suppose perhaps there are sentimental reasons but in that case
       | you might as well do a takeout, download everything, and enjoy
       | whatever is in your account locally.
       | 
       | On the other hand it's extremely easy to satisfy this sign-in
       | requirement. Just set up a mail client that fetches Gmail over
       | IMAP; you don't even have to read any emails.
        
       | simplyaccont wrote:
       | "It looks like someone else might be trying to access your Google
       | Account. For your protection, you can't sign in right now." Been
       | like this for past year or so, on every login attempt.
       | 
       | Good that I never actually used gmail for my real email. Only for
       | some random junk
        
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