Have you ever deleted a google account before? Any Experiences? What should one know about this? Do you trust them to really delete everything?

  • Ulrich@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Yeah I did. A couple years ago.

    The biggest problem was changing my email. Many companies are simply not equipped for such a request.

    Some of them actually told me I had to cancel my account and open a new one. Others would send half my emails to the new address and the other half to the old one. So fucking ridiculous.

    I moved my email to my own domain, so hopefully I never have to deal with that again.

    God help me if I ever have to change my phone number again for all the fucking companies demanding SMS verification.

    • sleen@lemmy.zip
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      56 minutes ago

      For a fundamental and integral part of the internet infrastructure, it is quite literally executed poorly.

      Getting a custom domain was like a difference of night and day.