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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week (www.forbes.com)
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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week::Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.

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[โ€“] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All this fuzz with adds, pushing people into premium services and increasing prices of services makes me think, could data hoarding have stopped being as profitable as it once was?

[โ€“] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I would think it's a matter of stale data. If they delete it all, people may create new accounts, and re-upload what's actually important (or download what's important), giving Google more data points.

Win/win for Google.