DeGoogle Yourself

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Just deleted my Google account!!! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I haven't used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don't have anyone I know to share it with.

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[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I went through my stored logins to migrate the vast majority of my accounts one by one (and deleted quite a few old and forgotten ones in the process). Took a couple of hours, but went mostly well.

For everything that I might have missed, I have gmail set up to forward everything to my new address. The new address (I went with posteo myself) has a filter that automatically moves stuff addressed to gmail to a separate folder. Whenever something ends up in there, I go and migrate or delete the account.