Google is preparing to start a big purge of user accounts next week. Already at the beginning of this year, he announced on his blog that from the beginning of December 2023 he will start deleting user accounts for Gmail, Photos or Drive if he has not recorded any activity on them for at least two years.
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On Google's part, this is an effort to increase user security across its services and products. This is because user accounts that have not been used for years are a much harder target for hackers than accounts that are actively used, as they are much more likely to have had a password leaked in the past that the user has not subsequently changed. So it makes more sense for Google to delete such accounts than to expose their owners to potential risk - especially when they obviously do not need the accounts for their lives.
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Although the likelihood that someone will miss a Google account that has been unused for two or more years after deleting it is very low, Google tries to contact their owners as much as possible. Therefore, it sends information about the deletion several times both to the unused account itself and to the emails associated with it to increase the chance of recovery.ancand that the information about the deletion gets to exactly where it is needed. And how to defend against deletion? Absolutely simple. All you have to do is do any activity on your Google account – in other words, just search for something on Google, where you are logged in, and so on.
I don't understand what the security problem is. They hack the account, that's it.oneAfter all, they can also have an active account whose owner clicks on where and what. Personally, I would rather see the main motivation in this as freeing up unnecessarily occupied storage space. After all, the amount of data must already be noticeable.