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I want to delete my Google account but i have a specific fear (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by intothesky@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What if i forget to delete some old accounts associated with the google email address? Will someone be able to take control of them? And my data will be there forever too.

What method do you use to find the old accounts to delete? Unfortunately i delete all emails after receiving them.

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[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

I took degoogling as an opportunity to review and purge a lot of accounts and actually hold myself to going through the GDPR data removal requests and all that. I refreshed passwords and emails of accounts I actually wanted to keep, and pretty much ditched the rest. If the account never made it into my password manager in the first place it clearly wasn’t very important, so it can bounce around cyberspace forever I guess.