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.

  • wagoner@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    Did you delete Gmail but keep your Google account? If so, I didn’t know this was possible

    • 087008001234@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Yes! (I assume that it is an option regardless of country)

      I thought I would still want to use my YouTube account because I didn’t know how to troubleshoot Piped Video yet, but in the end it has still been useful because I am still hosting some stuff on Google Drive for other people.

      Dig around the data/privacy part of myaccount.google.com and you should find it. It asks you to enter a new email address, and once you have confirmed it, it will delete the Gmail.

      edit: I guess YMMV - I did this a while back, so please pay attention to whatever warnings it gives you when you elect to delete the Gmail, because I feel like there might be some non-mail interactions that might be involved, or that it may have changed since I did it. also, obviously, I did this step after I was comfortable completely losing access to my email, and had stopped using the app store (what OP was inquiring about)