A few years ago, Comcast sent out an e-mail message (similar to the topic here), threatening customers that they will delete e-mail accounts with no activity (I believe it was 1 year of no activity). That is outrageous. Why? Unlike Google, your Comcast e-mail accounts (six are included with your subscription) are not free. You are paying for them. It would be like renting a storage unit, and not visiting it for X years. You keep making payments, but the company gave the unit to someone else, because you did not visit it. All of your stuff? Gone. I do not know if Comcast followed though with their threat. They never sent out an update. I imagine that someone would have filed a legal challenge, based on paying for their dormant e-mail accounts. Are they really abandoned, if you are paying for them? The answer is "No." But Comcast sent out e-mail stating that your inactive e-mail accounts (which you are paying for), will get deleted for inactivity. (they left out the part that you are paying for them, when they sent out their threat of e-mail account deletion) My community has only one internet service provider: Comcast. I would leave them in an instant, if they did not have a monopoly.
That's ironic because the Google search algorithm routinely serves up ancient results on the first page -- commonly, links over ten year old. I do wish they'd add a date factor to the algorithm. I also wish it was common internet practice to date webpages, like newspapers have dates on them. 30 years into the internet age and people still don't seem to realize that what we post today will still be online a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now. Oddly enough, TH-cam has also removed the option to list a channel's videos from oldest to newest. On tech channels, I'm not usually searching for 5 year old videos. Though I do sometimes search for legacy tech. But for other channels, if I like the TH-camr, recency doesn't matter. Why does Google want to bury a channel's back catalogue?
What happen to other website that registered using Gmail address? If we forgot the password on the Facebook using gmail address, it's mean password recovery is impossible due to deleted email account?
This is good information. What I find interesting is that I check my gmail nearly daily and I have yet to see any sort of notification from Google about this.
I actually have my Google account set to where if i'm not active for 3 months it will be deleted. What happens is, if i'm not active after a few months they send a notice saying that my account will be deleted. If i use my account after the notice is sent it rests and all is good, however if i do nothing it will be deleted. I set it that way because after i die i want it deleted as soon as possible. I can't trust my family to delete it for me after i die because they would want it kept around for sentimental reasons. I don't know why they would care because i don't store any pictures or files in my Google account.
So, wait, does this mean this account im using, which has the same google account of a hidden channel, is safe as long as I post videos on the channel im using?? Or am I at risk because I’ve hidden a channel?
Sir if I had used Google service on one of those gmail accounts which i can't/ didn't login for long time, like TH-cam and commented on some youtube videos Will the id be deleted along with my all comment too?
I want to delete my you tube account i have lost the email and the number used to log in . Is there any0 way . I reported many times still you tube isnt deleting it its been 2 years . Can u report that account for me since ur a you tube channel
Hi Leo! I have a question. I lost access to my google account in early 2021 and haven’t signed in since. I can’t sign in either. I have video files in google drive which I have set as “share to those with a link”. I also shared the video files with one other google user (my current user). Will my old account get deleted since it hasn’t been signed into, or will my account not be deleted because it’s got files in google drive with a “sharable link”…? What does “using google drive” mean…? Thank you for your help!
Supposedly if there are TH-cam videos associated with an account than it will not (yet) be deleted. Using google drive means you have files stored at drive.google.com.
@MediaManiaYT "Using google drive" seems very clear to me. Do you have files of any sort stored in Google Drive? If yes, then you're using Google Drive. That they are videos has no bearing on it.
If I've been signed into the same (personal) Google accounts on Google, (I use multiple accs, and I'm not sure how long I've been signed into them all), does this mean I'll have to sign out of all of them on Google and sign back in to keep them from being considered inactive?
I believe USING the account is what counts as being active. So just show some activity on all those accounts. (Of course signing out and in would be safer, but unnecessary in my opinion.) FWIW Google will give you LOTS of warning before doing anything.
Hey leo genuinely requesting ...please reply ! I created some random gmail ids (5-6) in 2020 -21 to use but used it once or twice and just got a few emails on it , and i wanted to delete it later in ( can't remember the year but it was either 2022 or 2021) ... BUT due to less understanding of tech , i thought clicking on remove accounts from device will delete the account, and unfortunately i found out now that those accounts were never deleted just removed from my device , and only my access was lost 😢 I really want to delete those Gmail accounts but cannot remember the email id , password or username neither had i added a recovery id ... I tried to recover it so many times but failed ... i can't login So my question is , Q 1) After reading all this , can u tell if those gmail account ids are considered inactive or not? As i can't / didn't login for quite few time now Q 2) Please confirm me in 2024 timeline, if Google will delete those accounts or not? Has Google updated this policy any further or did any changes? I really want them deleted, but forgot their details , all i remember it had my real name and other details . I Read the Google inactive policy many times , BUT IT SAYS GOOGLE "MAY" OR "MAYBE" DELETE THOSE INACTIVE ACCOUNTS after more than 2 yrs !! So does this mean there's no surety of my accounts being deleted ??? This means, They may or may not? So it really worries me , as Google is keeping us in confusion, that it surely will delete or not !! Q 3) Is this Google inactive account policy , legitimate or not ? It's notified from official Google notice right? Seen many people say in comments it's fake and is a hoax , Google will not delete inactive accounts . It's just troll or marketing or fake news for scaring... I would request u to answer all these 3 questions one by one, by devoting some of ur time . Kindly reply.
If your account is inactive, it'll get deleted. The only exception is if there are TH-cam uploads associated with the account. I've already gotten a notice for an account I forgot about from 10 years ago. That notice came to the alternate email address I'd specified as recovery info in the original account.
@@askleonotenboom Sir, thank you very much for taking your time to reply to me . As can't login anymore, will it be considered inactive? Sir , my last question is and as you said the only exception is youtube uploads ( I have no video uploads but youtube comments ) ..though I can't vividly remember, but I feel I had commented many times or maybe a few times using some of those gmail ids , if it has youtube comments associated with it will it be deleted ? As I have used the Google service, and commented on some videos or simply used the Google services associated to those gmail ids, will they delete that account too? I mean..Will all those youtube comments be deleted along the Gmail account? Will it be considered inactive?
A few years ago, Comcast sent out an e-mail message (similar to the topic here), threatening customers that they will delete e-mail accounts with no activity (I believe it was 1 year of no activity).
That is outrageous. Why?
Unlike Google, your Comcast e-mail accounts (six are included with your subscription) are not free. You are paying for them.
It would be like renting a storage unit, and not visiting it for X years. You keep making payments, but the company gave the unit to someone else, because you did not visit it. All of your stuff? Gone.
I do not know if Comcast followed though with their threat. They never sent out an update. I imagine that someone would have filed a legal challenge, based on paying for their dormant e-mail accounts. Are they really abandoned, if you are paying for them? The answer is "No." But Comcast sent out e-mail stating that your inactive e-mail accounts (which you are paying for), will get deleted for inactivity. (they left out the part that you are paying for them, when they sent out their threat of e-mail account deletion)
My community has only one internet service provider: Comcast.
I would leave them in an instant, if they did not have a monopoly.
That's ironic because the Google search algorithm routinely serves up ancient results on the first page -- commonly, links over ten year old. I do wish they'd add a date factor to the algorithm. I also wish it was common internet practice to date webpages, like newspapers have dates on them. 30 years into the internet age and people still don't seem to realize that what we post today will still be online a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now.
Oddly enough, TH-cam has also removed the option to list a channel's videos from oldest to newest. On tech channels, I'm not usually searching for 5 year old videos. Though I do sometimes search for legacy tech. But for other channels, if I like the TH-camr, recency doesn't matter. Why does Google want to bury a channel's back catalogue?
What happen to other website that registered using Gmail address? If we forgot the password on the Facebook using gmail address, it's mean password recovery is impossible due to deleted email account?
This is good information. What I find interesting is that I check my gmail nearly daily and I have yet to see any sort of notification from Google about this.
They did not send notification to individual accounts. This new policy was announced on their blog.
I actually have my Google account set to where if i'm not active for 3 months it will be deleted. What happens is, if i'm not active after a few months they send a notice saying that my account will be deleted. If i use my account after the notice is sent it rests and all is good, however if i do nothing it will be deleted. I set it that way because after i die i want it deleted as soon as possible. I can't trust my family to delete it for me after i die because they would want it kept around for sentimental reasons. I don't know why they would care because i don't store any pictures or files in my Google account.
Little question here Leo, will the account become active if you send an email to it from another email?, like maybe receipts from games?
No. You must sign in.
@@askleonotenboom so does sending emails to it not make it active once a again?
@@F-P-5TM No. You must sign in.
So, wait, does this mean this account im using, which has the same google account of a hidden channel, is safe as long as I post videos on the channel im using?? Or am I at risk because I’ve hidden a channel?
Sir if I had used Google service on one of those gmail accounts which i can't/ didn't login for long time, like TH-cam and commented on some youtube videos
Will the id be deleted along with my all comment too?
I believe everything associated with the account will be deleted.
@@askleonotenboom I was waiting for your answer the whole day . Thanks alot sir 🙏.
You have provided me great help , may you have a great day / night.
I want to delete my you tube account i have lost the email and the number used to log in . Is there any0 way . I reported many times still you tube isnt deleting it its been 2 years . Can u report that account for me since ur a you tube channel
Hi Leo!
I have a question. I lost access to my google account in early 2021 and haven’t signed in since. I can’t sign in either. I have video files in google drive which I have set as “share to those with a link”. I also shared the video files with one other google user (my current user). Will my old account get deleted since it hasn’t been signed into, or will my account not be deleted because it’s got files in google drive with a “sharable link”…?
What does “using google drive” mean…?
Thank you for your help!
Supposedly if there are TH-cam videos associated with an account than it will not (yet) be deleted. Using google drive means you have files stored at drive.google.com.
@MediaManiaYT "Using google drive" seems very clear to me. Do you have files of any sort stored in Google Drive? If yes, then you're using Google Drive. That they are videos has no bearing on it.
If I've been signed into the same (personal) Google accounts on Google, (I use multiple accs, and I'm not sure how long I've been signed into them all), does this mean I'll have to sign out of all of them on Google and sign back in to keep them from being considered inactive?
I believe USING the account is what counts as being active. So just show some activity on all those accounts. (Of course signing out and in would be safer, but unnecessary in my opinion.) FWIW Google will give you LOTS of warning before doing anything.
@@askleonotenboom Ok. Should I sign out of all of them on the Google app and then sign back in to all of them? Would that be safer?
@@em-pr5jv If you're using them anywhere I wouldn't bother. Like I said, you'll get LOTS of notice if its ever an issue.
@@askleonotenboom Okay, thank you.
@@askleonotenboom Do you know if any social media accounts associated with a google account that was deleted will also get deleted?
I’ve always stayed logged in to my google account
Thank you
noooooo i just found out my old account
Makes sense and I think 2 years is more than reasonable.
Hey leo genuinely requesting ...please reply ! I created some random gmail ids (5-6) in 2020 -21 to use but used it once or twice and just got a few emails on it , and i wanted to delete it later in ( can't remember the year but it was either 2022 or 2021) ... BUT due to less understanding of tech , i thought clicking on remove accounts from device will delete the account, and unfortunately i found out now that those accounts were never deleted just removed from my device , and only my access was lost 😢
I really want to delete those Gmail accounts but cannot remember the email id , password or username neither had i added a recovery id ...
I tried to recover it so many times but failed ... i can't login
So my question is ,
Q 1) After reading all this , can u tell if those gmail account ids are considered inactive or not? As i can't / didn't login for quite few time now
Q 2) Please confirm me in 2024 timeline, if Google will delete those accounts or not? Has Google updated this policy any further or did any changes?
I really want them deleted, but forgot their details , all i remember it had my real name and other details .
I Read the Google inactive policy many times , BUT IT SAYS GOOGLE "MAY" OR "MAYBE" DELETE THOSE INACTIVE ACCOUNTS after more than 2 yrs !! So does this mean there's no surety of my accounts being deleted ???
This means, They may or may not?
So it really worries me , as Google is keeping us in confusion, that it surely will delete or not !!
Q 3) Is this Google inactive account policy , legitimate or not ? It's notified from official Google notice right?
Seen many people say in comments it's fake and is a hoax , Google will not delete inactive accounts . It's just troll or marketing or fake news for scaring...
I would request u to answer all these 3 questions one by one, by devoting some of ur time .
Kindly reply.
If your account is inactive, it'll get deleted. The only exception is if there are TH-cam uploads associated with the account. I've already gotten a notice for an account I forgot about from 10 years ago. That notice came to the alternate email address I'd specified as recovery info in the original account.
@@askleonotenboom Sir, thank you very much for taking your time to reply to me .
As can't login anymore, will it be considered inactive?
Sir , my last question is
and as you said the only exception is youtube uploads ( I have no video uploads but youtube comments ) ..though I can't vividly remember, but I feel I had commented many times or maybe a few times using some of those gmail ids , if it has youtube comments associated with it will it be deleted ? As I have used the Google service, and commented on some videos or simply used the Google services associated to those gmail ids, will they delete that account too?
I mean..Will all those youtube comments be deleted along the Gmail account?
Will it be considered inactive?