'removed from public access, but retained for our own or for legal purposes'

Your data has been "deleted".

That takes me back. Been several years for me. Congratulations

Congratulations. Starting this year i got rid of facebook account but not completely because messenger is probably most popular messaging app in my country for some reason but still it is a great feeling

Congratulations. I have mine still active for 2 years for email forwarding...I think I should have caught all residual services by now and switched the email adress for them. Photos are transferred to selfhosted Immich, Files on nextcloud and Filen. Maybe I should find some time for the final deletion then?

That's something to do while we still can, Instagram doesn't let me delete my own account :/ Tried reaching the support multiple times, I've been completely ignored

This would be me if only there was some way to easily determine where I have used my @gmail address in the past 20 years. I have already set up another address that I own myself and have moved a bunch of stuff over, but I don't want to lose access to the rest of my accounts tied to my Gmail address.

Although I suppose I could go through my Keepass and list all logins that use my gmail, then chip away at that....

I see it as fate. I switched credit cards and wanted to register my new one on Meta but their system would not let me enter a Canadian postal code. My solution is to let the account expire in April (due to non-account payment because the credit card on file no longer exists) and sell my Quest 3s, otherwise they would have had me for another year. My days of troubleshooting or trying to get around bad design are over. Life is too short and VR, while fun, isn't fun enough for me to make the time sacrifices required to keep going. The bloom is off of the VR rose.

The other day I tried making a google account for an assignment my prof wanted (bro wanted presentation to be specifically on google slides and video uploaded on youtube). Google now required you to have a physical smartphone to make an account, you have to press a button that sends some kind of api that sends google an sms from your phone.

So I just told my friend to upload it for me

Obligatory joke that feels too real:

the onion google opt out village

If it was deleted then how could you recover it

My children's schools and after-school extracurricular clubs (including ones offered by the local police department) still are held hostage by Alphabet, forcing me to also maintain an account with them. But... I don't need to use it for anything else.

Congratulations!!!

I’m getting closer and closer to this goal myself.

What are the gmail replacement options?

I am in the process of figuring out which things are still tied to my old Google email address (I have been forwarding my emails from it for the last year and changing each account to unique aliases as I find them) so I can finally delete it for good.

I'm working towards doing this. It'll take a bit of setting up though

No problem

Nina Simone now stuck in my head, which is good, as is your achievement. I struggled for years to rid myself of their evil grip.

I don’t know how it works for Google but the moment they invoiced you once they might be able to or more precisely they might have to nevertheless keep yr data for years for tax reasons… And then some because they might have to comply with obscure data retention laws or such. But as of the moment this deletion happens you might not be able to access it anymore indeed.