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Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December (www.techspot.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The good news, as others said is that Google claims that Youtube channels wont be affected, however I aasume that over time they'l go that rought as more people start to stream in 8k or beyond. At some point they are going to have to delete older content as hosting it all isn't cheap. As big they are Google can only go so far for preservation when they keep boosting streaming video quality options.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, newer content is significantly more costly than older content, specially as Google can simply decide to show ads regardless.

Old YouTube content is what? 480p? 720p at most? They have already re-encoded their entire video library, it's super efficient. The real storage hogs are the modern 4K, 8K, HDR, 60 FPS video files.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

the point is.. are they going to rid of old content from an erra that less people remenber or current content that increasingly more people are likely to watch willingly to get ad revenue.

in order to save on costs they are wanting to rid of older content ultamately one year of videos on Youtube can easily save gbs of storage and costs, right now they are starting with gmail but at some point I predict they'l adopt it to Youtube.