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Re:Updating our inactive account policies by nitwit005 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:46PM (#35969359)
That's possible, but the storage costs of unused accounts is probably significant. Given billions of users, they probably have several hundred million of them.

Previous company I worked for had to create a process to clean up unused developer accounts. The fact that they were free to sign up meant we eventually got quite an impressive amount of them.

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Re:Updating our inactive account policies by withinboredom on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @01:59AM (#35971741)
Meh, you move that data to cold storage and if they ever come back, it just takes longer to log in. They are already physically migrating data to closer data centers for you, so it isn’t any more complex than what they’re already doing.
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