I’ve been manually going through everything, including merging credentials going back two decades across 2-3 browsers finally to a single password manager, and… geez, there’s literal months’ worth of reviewing to do if you added up all the time if it was nonstop.

I’m just curious about how others’ experiences have been, for those who shifted towards a more anti-megacorp stance later on.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • Kualdir@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    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.