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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.
Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963093
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?
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…
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.
Good that I never actually used gmail for my real email. Only for some random junk
Not a terrible requirement. If they are so important to you, why can't you login once every 2 years. Why is it bad news?
"The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the account at least once every two years." Not a terrible requirement. If they are so important to you, why can't you login once every 2 years. Why is it bad news?
Apparently actively using this service does not count as an "active login", because that account was disabled and my number was given to someone else. I only found out when a friend showed me screenshots of my number texting them "who is this?", despite having my main email and phone number as backups for the second account. I cannot get that number back, and support was no help.