Re:Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?
by cube00 on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:38AM
(#32107468)
There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time
Visit each site in your password manager and knock over a couple a day.
You'll never get anything that fully automates this because every site does the change differently. Even LastPass's automated password changer could only ever do a handful of sites fully automatically.
I've seen everything from full self service, to manual approval, to begging their privacy/legal department, to sites claiming allowing me to change my email address would represent an unacceptable security risk. I ask those sites that make up reasons like that to delete my personal information and move to someone who understands why email addresses are bad primary keys.
If you use your own domain, you'll never have to do this ever again, no matter how many times you change your email provider.
You need to start today, if you wait it's only a matter of time before Google does it for you by locking you out of your account for reasons they won't explain. Browse the GMail subreddit and observe the sea of hundreds of people locked out each week.
Re:Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?
by can16358p on Friday July 15, 2022 @09:32AM
(#32107991)
And until the transfer is over, mail forwarding rules to the new (custom domain) email address would be a nice idea to not miss anything in the meantime without manually logging into Gmail.
Visit each site in your password manager and knock over a couple a day.
You'll never get anything that fully automates this because every site does the change differently. Even LastPass's automated password changer could only ever do a handful of sites fully automatically.
I've seen everything from full self service, to manual approval, to begging their privacy/legal department, to sites claiming allowing me to change my email address would represent an unacceptable security risk. I ask those sites that make up reasons like that to delete my personal information and move to someone who understands why email addresses are bad primary keys.
If you use your own domain, you'll never have to do this ever again, no matter how many times you change your email provider.
You need to start today, if you wait it's only a matter of time before Google does it for you by locking you out of your account for reasons they won't explain. Browse the GMail subreddit and observe the sea of hundreds of people locked out each week.