A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
Rules:
I still have that old gmail account. I cannot log in anymore, but it still sometimes forwards mail to my current address. I'd love to nuke it.
Nothing else. Facebook is destroyed, reddit I don't care about, and I jumped ship before corporate cloud storage became normal.
But I remember times I was going through everything with a fine comb, mostly whenever I used my main address to register for something, to replace that with aliases or throwaway addresses.
I've slowly switched everything over the years (and with email it was pretty easy just setting up forwarding and switching whenever I got an email) so it wasn't too much of a bother. Never liked having multiple browsers or PW managers so that was never an issue.
It'll always take some effort, but if its something you care about I'd say its worth it.
I have never created an account with Google other than for an occasional use-once throwaway email. I stopped that once they started requiring a mobile phone number.
Dang, nice. Who is your email with?
A commercial provider. I'd rather keep it private; sorry.
No prob! I've seen Rocket Mail, Zoho, and Tuta thrown around as of late, and was just curious about others in the ring.
Check out mailbox.org
I don't think I've heard of that one, thanks!
What do you realistically need to keep?
I don't know... I guess I'm being too cautious... though it's also kind of a fun (or maybe sometimes painful lol) stroll down Memory Lane at times...
I have a data hoarding problem, so I don't know how to help really, lol. I just sometimes feel okay deleting an installer from years ago and feel proud of myself
Ironically, I just cleared out an unexpected temporary-files stash of those, haha!