‘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
Thanks, and nice going!
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
That’s some bullshit. Google Classroom should be included by the district if they want you to use Google apps.
He’s a techbro kind of guy
Without the pay…
Yep. A failed tech bro
Bullshit
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
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.
I have a quest 3 but I’m not paying meta a dime for anything beyond the headset. It’s much cheaper to buy games on Steam if that setup works for you. There are also apps like apprenticeVR that basically let you download and install any APK for games to play then directly on the headset.
Recently apprenticeVR gave me some issues reaching the servers, but it looks like there are some forks made recently to provide a fix until the main project incorporates something:
If it was deleted then how could you recover it
Obligatory joke that feels too real:
All for-profit prisons already have these features, lol.
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
No problem
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)NSFW isn’t only porn. Use Swisscows as search engine and you’ll understand why it isn’t recommend to block NSFW if you aren’t a young kid.
I’m working towards doing this. It’ll take a bit of setting up though
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I was using Nextcloud with OnlyOffice for a while, but since then, this is the setup:
- YouTube --> Invidious/Odysee/PeerTube
- Authenticator --> Stratum
- Google Passwords --> Vaultwarden
- Gmail/Calendar/Tasks --> Privateemail (through domain host)
- Google Drive --> Syncthing/SFTPGo (webdav implementation handles phone backups, too)
- Play Store --> Aurora and F-Droid
- Google Search --> SearXNG
- Google Home --> HomeAssistant
- Google Photos --> Immich
- Google Books --> Kavita
- Android Messages --> KDE Connect
- Google Maps --> Organic Maps or Magic Earth
- Google Meet --> Element
- Google Pay --> PayPal
- Google Voice --> Session
- YouTube Music --> gonic
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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.
I’d suggest to recover your account and burn it first: Register in a hell amount of random services for a few weeks to make it confuse about you, so their data about you will be imprecise which has no much value for them.
BUT… don’t be too obvious, make it look like a legit behavior. We must assume they can spot a timestamp when you started burning it.
I say that because I did the same, straight deleted my Google account, but I wish I realized it’d be better to burn it first.
Anyway, not a mandatory thing, your data will become useless eventually, up to date data is more valuable for them than outdated data. They probably just ignore/delete old deleted accounts indeed, since it has each time less updated info.
