Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.

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

  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1148·
    11 months ago

    don’t care that it’s for inactive accounts, this is a disgusting purge of culture. spam email is one thing but imagine all the literal irreplaceable memories stored. don’t give a shit about their storage costs, it’s google. sort it the fuck out.

    edit lol keep weeping for a trillion dollar company. i don’t use this garbage, i have no files i’m losing.

    • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      651·
      11 months ago

      I’m all for bashing them for their shitty practices, but let’s be honest here. If you care about your memories, all you have to do is login once and they’re safe. If that’s unreasonable, I think that’s a you problem.

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        193·
        11 months ago

        It’s also Google. You probably shouldn’t put anything on it that you’re not expecting to go away in a few years when the service shuts down.

        At the very least, have a spare copy somewhere that isn’t likely to get wiped out.

        • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          You make a funny point. https://killedbygoogle.com/

          But GMail isn’t going anywhere. There are surely very few more valuable places to harvest user data than reading all their emails.

          Still big agree. Have a backup. Don’t trust corporations.

        • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          The never just deleted data without a plan for you to download it. Your photos aren’t going anywhere. If by some chance Google goes out of business you’ll have ample time to download them.

          Unless you’re saving your own shit on multiple disks and putting copies of shit in multiple places, Google photos is probably the safest spot on the planet for them.

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      The EU is forcing them to do this as part of the GDPR. Google isn’t allowed to store personal data for longer than is required, and an account that’s been inactive for 2 years is very likely an account that will never be accessed again. Therefore, Google has no legitimate purpose to store that data, ergo they must delete it.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      If you don’t care to login in two years, maybe the memories are not that irreplacable…