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

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your account will only be marked as such

Yeah big databases systems on google scale work like this I guess 😔. Best thing to do is delete that shit and hope for the best I guess.

randomcruft
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Sadly, hoping for the best is the only viable option these days.

Self host ALL the things. I know where all my pics and docs reside right here in my house.

randomcruft
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That is a fair statement. In today’s world, it’s the only truly safe option.

However, it’s not always realistic for some people to do… for various reasons.

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Yeah, though with things like the fediverse, generations that where born into the tech world (internet only really started to be a thing around high school for me, but my kids have never used dial up) and small cheap systems like raspberry pi I expect it’ll get much easier and hopefully more common.

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