Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Eric the Red <Eric@TheRed.com> wrote:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
Easily over a dozen.
How many Android phones have you set up?
They give you an account easy when you do that.
No questions asked.
Much easier than it is to set up a new account on Windows for example.
Every time you need to add free 15GB of storage, you get another account.
Over time, you easily have more than a dozen Google accounts.
Each gives you all the perks such as that 15GB free storage per account.
And easy moving of contacts, calendars & apps from one device to the
other.
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at any time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
On 2023-08-02, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at
any time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
Actually, they do. If you're on VPN especially. But even if you're not on
VPN and you don't want to give them 2FA or a recovery address or phone #, Google will make it almost impossible unless you start from an Android.
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
To: google account holder
Subject: Updating our Google Account inactivity policy
Date: today
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
To: google account holder
Subject: Updating our Google Account inactivity policy
Date: today
(C) 2023 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Am 03.08.23 um 00:13 schrieb Eric the Red:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Seriously?
To: google account holder
Subject: Updating our Google Account inactivity policy
Date: today
In an iPhone-Group?
(C) 2023 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Who cares?
On 2023-08-02, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at
any time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
Actually, they do. If you're on VPN especially. But even if you're not on
VPN and you don't want to give them 2FA or a recovery address or phone #, Google will make it almost impossible unless you start from an Android.
Eric the Red wrote:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
badgolferman wrote:
Eric the Red wrote:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
I have three ...
the one if first created as a gmail account (rarely used now)
a second one I created purely for my phone, when I wanted to keep it
separate from the first one, google has long worked-out that this
account is associated to the first one, so I only use this one now
a third one setup to use gsuite with my domain, inactive and I'll let
them close this one based on their new inactivity policy.
On 2023-08-02, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at any time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
Actually, they do. If you're on VPN especially. But even if you're not on
VPN and you don't want to give them 2FA or a recovery address or phone #, Google will make it almost impossible unless you start from an Android.
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
To: google account holder
Subject: Updating our Google Account inactivity policy
Date: today
Every day Google works hard to keep you and your private information
safe and secure by preventing unauthorized access to your Google Account
with our built-in security protections. And keeping you safe means
having strong privacy practices across our products that minimize how
long we store your personal files and any data associated with them. We
want to protect your private information and prevent any unauthorized
access to your account even if you're no longer using our services.
Therefore, we are updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to
two years across all our products and services.
This change starts rolling out today and will apply to any Google
Account that's been inactive, meaning it has not been signed into or
used within a two-year period.
An inactive account and any content in it will be eligible for deletion
from December 1, 2023.
What this means for you:
These changes do not impact you unless you have been inactive in
your
Google Account for two years or have not used your account to sign in to
any Google service for over two years.
While the changes go into effect today, the earliest we would
enforce
any account deletion would be December 2023.
If your account is considered inactive, we will send several
reminder
emails to both you and your recovery emails (if any have been provided) before we take any action or delete any account content. These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account.
After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account.
How to keep your account active?
The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the
account at least once every two years. If you have signed in to your
Google Account recently in the past two years, your account is
considered active and will not be deleted.
Other ways to keep your account active include:
Reading or sending an email
Using Google Drive
Watching a YouTube video
Sharing a photo
Downloading an app
Using Google Search
Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service
There are some exceptions to this policy. Examples include: a Google
Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an account that has a
gift card with a monetary balance; or an account that has a published application, for example, one that hosts an app on the Google Play
store. Other exceptions to this policy are available here.
Google also offers tools to help manage your Google Account and provide options to back up your data, including the ability to download your
data using Google Takeout, and allowing you to plan for what happens to
your data if you're inactive for a specific period of time with the
Inactive Account Manager.
Our priority is to make it as easy as possible for you to keep your
account active, if you want to, and we'll ensure you have adequate
notice before any account is impacted by this change. So before an
account is deleted, Google will send email notifications to the Google Account and its recovery email (if one has been provided). You should
verify that your recovery email is up to date.
Learn more
Inactive Google Account Policy
How Google retains data we collect
Updating our inactive account policies (only available in English)
Thank you,
The Google Account team
You have received this email to update you about important changes to
your Google Account and services.
(C) 2023 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Incubus <u9536612@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2023-08-02, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at any >>> time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
Actually, they do. If you're on VPN especially. But even if you're not on
VPN and you don't want to give them 2FA or a recovery address or phone #,
Google will make it almost impossible unless you start from an Android.
(For the non-VPN case:) Urban legend!
Just recently, 'we' (YTIW) tested again (proof posted to one or more
of these groups) that you do *not* need a recovery (email) address, nor
a phone number and 2FA is optional and does *not* neccessarily need a
phone number (other 2FA methods are available).
Eric the Red <Eric@TheRed.com> posted this via news:uaekel$a6ci$1@dont-email.me:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
I have a few Gmail accounts so when I got the memo, I went via the web interface to make sure all the latent accounts would have some activity logged. Most were loaded with SPAM, so that was an affirmative action the Gmail servers could log when I cleared all the junk.
Two (2) interesting things are happening with the Google behemoth:
1) After I would sign out of one account, I would close the browser, then clear all my cookies and caches before signing into the next account. Even with the clean-up effort, Gmail still recognized [my device, I presume] and started linking the accounts together; such that, next time I signed out, closed out the browser, cleared the caches, then attempted to sign in to
the next account, the sign in page would list the previous accounts, now linked, and give me an option into which to login, or to "add another account."
Seemingly randomly, as I progressed through each account, I was required to execute Captchas and/or retrieve a validation code prior to proceeding.
M'eh... Got 'er done.
2) One of my flagship accounts, not frequently used, required a validation code be sent to me via an old mobile phone number - which I had long ago changed to my current number.
A. Sign in: *********@gmail.com
B. Must execute Captcha process
C. Password: enter password
D. Interface demands verification via old cell phone
E. "Can't sign you in" > "... doesn't have enough information
to be sure this account is yours."
F. "Learn more about recovery information [link]"
REFERENCE: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3898219
EVERYTHING is a loopback to the fact that I changed cell phone numbers...
I even got a return email from Gmail support, but it simply pointed me at
the above link then stated that "some accounts will be unrecoverable..."
then invites you simply open a new account.
You MUST sign in to your disabled account in order to change the recovery number and Gmail won't allow you to sign in without sending a verification code to the old recovery number... Additionally, the system will not allow you reestablish or reopen the disabled account using a different password, recovery number, etc.
Sucks for me, but if it's happening to me, you can bet it's happening to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of other users. Seems like a terrible waste of server space to keep all those damaged accounts on file, especially when they have gone to extraordinary efforts to tie all your
Gmail accounts together, which SHOULD serve to verify each other. D'uh.
As they say "Welcome to the d-d-d-di-di-di-dig-dig-digi-digit-digita- digita-digital age."
Incubus <u9536612@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2023-08-02, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at any >>> time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
Actually, they do. If you're on VPN especially. But even if you're not on
VPN and you don't want to give them 2FA or a recovery address or phone #,
Google will make it almost impossible unless you start from an Android.
(For the non-VPN case:) Urban legend!
Just recently, 'we' (YTIW) tested again (proof posted to one or more
of these groups) that you do *not* need a recovery (email) address, nor
a phone number and 2FA is optional and does *not* neccessarily need a
phone number (other 2FA methods are available).
Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
Am 03.08.23 um 00:13 schrieb Eric the Red:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Seriously?
Indeed. I have NO google accounts. Never will again. The one that I
had when I had an Android phone 7 years ago is long gone. Also I have
never willingly used google search.
I have used it a couple times on
various things before changing the default to something better.
Indeed. I have NO google accounts. Never will again. The one that I
had when I had an Android phone 7 years ago is long gone. Also I have
never willingly used google search.
Even if you did, why would you login?
On 2023-08-03 08:06, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Incubus <u9536612@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2023-08-02, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
But it's not like they grill you about why you want a new account at any >>> time. Just go to any Google site and sign up, no new phone required.
Actually, they do. If you're on VPN especially. But even if you're not on >> VPN and you don't want to give them 2FA or a recovery address or phone #, >> Google will make it almost impossible unless you start from an Android.
(For the non-VPN case:) Urban legend!
Just recently, 'we' (YTIW) tested again (proof posted to one or more
of these groups) that you do *not* need a recovery (email) address, nor
a phone number and 2FA is optional and does *not* neccessarily need a
phone number (other 2FA methods are available).
HOW DARE YOU POST THE FACTS!
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 20:21:41 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:
Anyway, I'll be closing a few of those still active ones too, but do
wonder if there is a forum to sell off really good "handles"?
Didn't the message say the old inactive handles will never be re-used?
Anyway, I'll be closing a few of those still active ones too, but do
wonder if there is a forum to sell off really good "handles"?
On 8/3/2023 12:47 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
Indeed. I have NO google accounts. Never will again. The one that I >>> had when I had an Android phone 7 years ago is long gone. Also I have
never willingly used google search.
Even if you did, why would you login?
The guy you're responding to is so dumb he has never searched the Internet? And then, he's so dumb that he thinks a search requires him to login first? Who is that stupid?
On 2023-08-03 19:26, Lord Vader wrote:
On 8/3/2023 12:47 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
Indeed. I have NO google accounts. Never will again. The one that I
had when I had an Android phone 7 years ago is long gone. Also I have >>>> never willingly used google search.
Even if you did, why would you login?
The guy you're responding to is so dumb he has never searched the Internet? >> And then, he's so dumb that he thinks a search requires him to login first? >> Who is that stupid?
Millions of people use google search while logged in.
Even if you did, why would you login?
The guy you're responding to is so dumb he has never searched the Internet? >>> And then, he's so dumb that he thinks a search requires him to login first? >>> Who is that stupid?
Millions of people use google search while logged in.
And the reason is "token persistence".
Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
Am 03.08.23 um 00:13 schrieb Eric the Red:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Seriously?
Indeed. I have NO google accounts. Never will again. The one that I
had when I had an Android phone 7 years ago is long gone. Also I have
never willingly used google search. I have used it a couple times on various things before changing the default to something better.
To: google account holder
Subject: Updating our Google Account inactivity policy
Date: today
In an iPhone-Group?
It’s called trolling.
(C) 2023 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Who cares?
No one in the iPhone newsgroup, that’s for sure.
On 2023-08-03 16:22, Bucky Breeder wrote:
Eric the Red <Eric@TheRed.com> posted this via
news:uaekel$a6ci$1@dont-email.me:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
...
I have a few Gmail accounts so when I got the memo, I went via the web
interface to make sure all the latent accounts would have some activity
logged. Most were loaded with SPAM, so that was an affirmative action
the Gmail servers could log when I cleared all the junk.
Two (2) interesting things are happening with the Google behemoth:
1) After I would sign out of one account, I would close the browser,
then clear all my cookies and caches before signing into the next
account. Even with the clean-up effort, Gmail still recognized [my
device, I presume] and started linking the accounts together; such
that, next time I signed out, closed out the browser, cleared the
caches, then attempted to sign in to the next account, the sign in page
would list the previous accounts, now linked, and give me an option
into which to login, or to "add another account."
You have to log out. Deleting cookies is not necessary.
Alternatively, you can login to each with a different Firefox profile -
in Linux:
firefox --ProfileManager &
so that Google considers them different devices. You can thus be simultaneously logged to several gmail accounts.
Seemingly randomly, as I progressed through each account, I was
required to execute Captchas and/or retrieve a validation code prior to
proceeding.
M'eh... Got 'er done.
2) One of my flagship accounts, not frequently used, required a
validation code be sent to me via an old mobile phone number - which I
had long ago changed to my current number.
A. Sign in: *********@gmail.com
B. Must execute Captcha process
C. Password: enter password
D. Interface demands verification via old cell phone
E. "Can't sign you in" > "... doesn't have enough information
to be sure this account is yours."
F. "Learn more about recovery information [link]"
REFERENCE: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3898219
EVERYTHING is a loopback to the fact that I changed cell phone
numbers...
I even got a return email from Gmail support, but it simply pointed me
at the above link then stated that "some accounts will be
unrecoverable..." then invites you simply open a new account.
You MUST sign in to your disabled account in order to change the
recovery number and Gmail won't allow you to sign in without sending a
verification code to the old recovery number... Additionally, the
system will not allow you reestablish or reopen the disabled account
using a different password, recovery number, etc.
Which is a reason to have several different recovery options with them,
like an alternate email, and try to keep the information current.
Sucks for me, but if it's happening to me, you can bet it's happening
to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of other users. Seems like
a terrible waste of server space to keep all those damaged accounts on
file, especially when they have gone to extraordinary efforts to tie
all your Gmail accounts together, which SHOULD serve to verify each
other. D'uh.
As they say "Welcome to the d-d-d-di-di-di-dig-dig-digi-digit-digita-
digita-digital age."
It's so special that YOU think I was asking for help. I was merely
relaying the current landscape as I have discovered it pursuant to Gmail's notice to update Gmail accounts or lose them.
Am 04.08.23 um 18:44 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
It's so special that YOU think I was asking for help. I was merely
relaying the current landscape as I have discovered it pursuant to
Gmail's notice to update Gmail accounts or lose them.
That is of no interest in an iPhone-group at all.
Stop this X-posting.
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_Lorenz?= <hugybear@gmx.ch> posted this via news:uajlr5$45ee$2@solani.org:
Am 04.08.23 um 18:44 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
It's so special that YOU think I was asking for help. I was merely
relaying the current landscape as I have discovered it pursuant to
Gmail's notice to update Gmail accounts or lose them.
That is of no interest in an iPhone-group at all.
Stop this X-posting.
Thanks for licking my nutsack, you dillhole. My iPhone has the same issues as you snipped from my post. Go try to be drag queen of some other internet, you dumbass dillhole.
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_Lorenz?= <hugybear@gmx.ch> posted this via news:uajlr5$45ee$2@solani.org:
Am 04.08.23 um 18:44 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
It's so special that YOU think I was asking for help. I was merely
relaying the current landscape as I have discovered it pursuant to
Gmail's notice to update Gmail accounts or lose them.
That is of no interest in an iPhone-group at all.
Stop this X-posting.
Thanks for licking my nutsack, you dillhole. My iPhone has the same issues as you snipped from my post. Go try to be drag queen of some other internet, you dumbass dillhole.
Am 05.08.23 um 06:32 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_Lorenz?= <hugybear@gmx.ch> posted this via
news:uajlr5$45ee$2@solani.org:
Am 04.08.23 um 18:44 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
It's so special that YOU think I was asking for help. I was merely
relaying the current landscape as I have discovered it pursuant to
Gmail's notice to update Gmail accounts or lose them.
That is of no interest in an iPhone-group at all.
Stop this X-posting.
Thanks for licking my nutsack, you dillhole. My iPhone has the same
issues as you snipped from my post. Go try to be drag queen of some
other internet, you dumbass dillhole.
Troll.
"Google Account inactivity policy" has abolutely nothing to do with an iPhone. You seem to be brain dead.
Am 05.08.23 um 06:32 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_Lorenz?= <hugybear@gmx.ch> posted this via
news:uajlr5$45ee$2@solani.org:
Am 04.08.23 um 18:44 schrieb Bucky Breeder:
It's so special that YOU think I was asking for help. I was merely
relaying the current landscape as I have discovered it pursuant to
Gmail's notice to update Gmail accounts or lose them.
That is of no interest in an iPhone-group at all.
Stop this X-posting.
Thanks for licking my nutsack, you dillhole. My iPhone has the same
issues as you snipped from my post. Go try to be drag queen of some
other internet, you dumbass dillhole.
Bucky Breeder <Breeder_Bucky-Breeder@That's.my.name_Don't.wear.it.out>
A case for the loony bin.
*ROTFLSTC*
Eric the Red <Eric@TheRed.com> wrote:
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:28:18 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:Would be nice if people would not snip the original test. I am assuming there was a link to an article from google.
Eric the Red <Eric@TheRed.com> wrote:I did years ago when playing a game that gave a definite game benefit
Most of us have over a dozen google accounts so this may impact you...
Really? You have over a dozen Google accounts?
to players who had multiple accounts and used them to funnel resources
back and forth. I only use one of them now (since I no longer play
that game and use that account for testing things)
I had best get busy then if those are the new rules since my wife
passed 18 months ago and I'm certain she didn't designate my acct as
her recovery account. (Though I've set it up to send to my
Thunderbird account so it's probably a non-issue since her messages
are auto-forwarded to my secondary account - initially this was
important since various real world accounts like our newspaper were
paid on her credit card not mine. Similarly our communications with a charitable group we've supported for 15+ years - and which I still do
support but with communications to my acct now)
On 11/6/23 12:33 PM, this is what The Horny Goat wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:28:18 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman
<REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
Would be nice if people would not snip the original test. I am
assuming there was a link to an article from google.
I've probably seen it and I know I have 1 account they can kill if it
gets old.
But I would like to see the notice.
I did years ago when playing a game that gave a definite game benefit
to players who had multiple accounts and used them to funnel resources
back and forth. I only use one of them now (since I no longer play
that game and use that account for testing things)
I did years ago when playing a game that gave a definite game benefit
to players who had multiple accounts and used them to funnel resources
back and forth. I only use one of them now (since I no longer play
that game and use that account for testing things)
Maybe a Facebook Game called Stormfall or Farmville? :D
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