when google WILL close your gmail

[todservices]

Just because they can
and these big tech love to fuck up your life

Gmail WILL close your email account at some point.
It's not IF, it's WHEN.

What will you do ?
Cause all your important access go through gmail
what is your plan ?

[blackmonsters]

OK, just tell us what happened bro.

[CurrentlySober]

i use gmail as an interface for my domain emails - send an email to me at domain dot com, it arrives in my gmail. should gmail disappear, i wood just make them go to another service - or use outlook on the computer or thunderbird or something - woodnt really bovver me - but why wood they? im sure the info they gather from reading all my emails is of value to them...

[just a punk]

Just because they can
and these big tech love to fuck up your life

Gmail WILL close your email account at some point.
It's not IF, it's WHEN.

What will you do ?
Cause all your important access go through gmail
what is your plan ?

I use Gmail for spamboxes, so I don't really care...

P.S. All their services suck - uncomfortable, clumsy, unreliable with no support at all.

[todservices]

OK, just tell us what happened bro.

lol
nothing happened
but it will happen for sure at some point

[King Mark]

Up until a couple days ago I tried really hard to rock with Google. Their customer service always been terrible, but the convenience of running a company 100% through Google was convenient once you learned your way around.

Now that they're dropping their domain and workspace service like it has digital COVID, I'm out.

Can't be teasing me with all that convenience, then snatching it from me 😤

[2MuchMark]

I have been using Google admin to manage my accounts for a while... it is ok, but I don't really love it. And sometimes when I try sending an email to a gmail-managed email account, it just never seems to arrive, and not even in my junk mail.

When I think I will probably do this week is switch everything over to Microsoft. I am supporting a couple of clients who are using Microsoft Admin to manage the users and licenses in their companies and, while more complex, seems more intuitive.

Google's support though is pretty good. It's easy to get someone in chat to help, and almost as easy to get someone on the phone.

[2MuchMark]

Up until a couple days ago I tried really hard to rock with Google. Their customer service always been terrible, but the convenience of running a company 100% through Google was convenient once you learned your way around.

Now that they're dropping their domain and workspace service like it has digital COVID, I'm out.

Can't be teasing me with all that convenience, then snatching it from me 😤

Question for you: I sign-in to various services such as Linode using Google authentication. If I switch my email provider away from gmail, do you know if I will lose this service too?

[blackmonsters]

Question for you: I sign-in to various services such as Linode using Google authentication. If I switch my email provider away from gmail, do you know if I will lose this service too?

That's an interesting point.
I've only used "Sign in with gmail" once.
But other people must have dozens of accounts they use like that.

[MelkieWey]

Up until a couple days ago I tried really hard to rock with Google [...]
Can't be teasing me with all that convenience, then snatching it from me 😤

From 2014-2020 i was a google fangirl! TILL! they killed my bussness account for using it with NSFW content. When i tried to download my carrers video database they blocked my account & ranswomwared me into a +/-2000$ bill!!!

i had ask my bank to block google! i had to get a new account/card number! they literally denied me the ability to pay my regualr bills! i lost everything ive produced!

Google sucks donkey balls!

...should gmail disappear, i wood just make them go to another service - or use outlook on the computer

Yeah! just get a Domain & register it to a home server! Cant loose access if you can phisically access your local server
How to Easily Set Up a Mail Server on Debian 11 Bullseye with iRedMail

Later i setup Outlook to check for my corporate mails

...it just never seems to arrive, and not even in my junk mail.

It is cuss google servers are actively refusing/dropping your mail address! They just Blacklist you internally without ever notifying you! Once Blacklisted by google ur mail is preety much fucked!

... this week is switch everything over to Microsoft [...] MS Adminwhile more complex, seems more intuitive

Bing webmaster tools are state of the art! it integrates with everything even google so you wont have to loose all your G analitics & search console!


Wordpress sites like my brandynette.com really benefit SEO wise!

instead of clicking trough a malware prone Browser GUI constantly asquin me if im myself on my own machine with the proper account authoriy for the entire workflow to colapses over a delayed 2FA request... MORONIC GOOLE!

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Microsoft also rewards me constantly for using their services! i switched to Windows 11 & misorosft in October 2021 havent regrettet it once!

i root login to my "VPS" using "WSL" over "Powershell" now & push want im currently working on as "Vscode" is fully integrated into my local vitual machine. OneDrive backups everything & i dont have to worry loosing my content again!

TOTAL MISCROSOFT FANGIRL NOW!
Development & system administration went from tediously hard to simple as fuck!

[CaptainHowdy]

Don't use Google as a bank (?) . . .

[sandman!]

so what i dont have anything important stored in gmail

[King Mark]

Question for you: I sign-in to various services such as Linode using Google authentication. If I switch my email provider away from gmail, do you know if I will lose this service too?

I don't think that's going anywhere anytime soon. But it's Google, so... 🤷

[Lief Thorson]

I have a micro pc runing linux at my home and my email server is there. My broadband is fast and static ip so it works fine.

[manilaagent]

Gmail remains the most popular email platform with over 1.8 billion users worldwide. As of April 2022, Gmail holds 29.5% of the email client market share.

Why in the Fuck would Google close your GMAIL account??????

That would be Self-defeating .

[lezinterracial]

after end of 2023, inactive accounts over 2 years old will start being deleted.
The era of market dominance is coming to a close. Expect less free.
They are already cutting back on Goggle drive upload capacity.

I can't believe youtube still allows me to upload my crap videos.

https://blog.google/technology/safet...ount-policies/

To reduce this risk, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products. Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar) and Google Photos.

The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organizations like schools or businesses. This update aligns our policy with industry standards around retention and account deletion and also limits the amount of time Google retains your unused personal information.

We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:

While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).

My opinion.
Before gmail accounts will be deleted, Google will probably stop all new free gmail accounts. Become part of a suite of products. Google drive, goggle music, youtube will be part of a bundle. But I will be dead, nothing is forever.

[Retiree]

Cause all your important access go through gmail
what is your plan ?

Never relied on gmail or google, just like it isn't smart to rely on any company.

[plsureking]

after end of 2023, inactive accounts over 2 years old will start being deleted.
The era of market dominance is coming to a close. Expect less free.
They are already cutting back on Goggle drive upload capacity.

I can't believe youtube still allows me to upload my crap videos.

https://blog.google/technology/safet...ount-policies/

My opinion.
Before gmail accounts will be deleted, Google will probably stop all new free gmail accounts. Become part of a suite of products. Google drive, goggle music, youtube will be part of a bundle. But I will be dead, nothing is forever.

completely realistic and normal response to google tightening up on dead accounts.

the "sky is falling" message of the OP is pretty ridiculous.

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