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Did you ever delete a google account?
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Yeah I did. A couple years ago.
The biggest problem was changing my email. Many companies are simply not equipped for such a request.
Some of them actually told me I had to cancel my account and open a new one. Others would send half my emails to the new address and the other half to the old one. So fucking ridiculous.
I moved my email to my own domain, so hopefully I never have to deal with that again.
God help me if I ever have to change my phone number again for all the fucking companies demanding SMS verification.
For a fundamental and integral part of the internet infrastructure, it is quite literally executed poorly.
Getting a custom domain was like a difference of night and day.