deleting google accounts will not delete your video library

This week all alarms went off when Google announced that accounts with more than two years of inactivity would be permanently deleted. A countdown has started that has internet users worried, especially when we learned that YouTube videos will be part of the selection.

However, in a happy turn of events, Google decided to remove YouTube From the cursed list The Mountain View giant’s streaming video service won’t remove content from “obsolete” accounts.

No, your videos will not be lost forever

As we commented, the original version of the Google post where announced the deletion of accounts with more than two years of inactivity mentioned the following:

Starting this year, if a Google Account hasn’t been used or signed in for at least two years, we can delete the account and its content, including Google Workspace content (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar ), YouTube , and Google Photos. (English translation)

That’s when the networks caught fire, as users thought about the library of videos they were storing on YouTube. For personal accounts, things didn’t look so dramatic, because we told you that procedures that made our accounts active.

However, the same cannot be said for the accounts of others. Google was running the risk of losing real gems

content creators who are no longer active, so it was all up to the owner. However, the publication has changed to the delight of many.

From the paragraph we showed above, Google has removed YouTube from the list of affected services, all with incredible stealth. In fact, a small note is added which reads like this:

Also, at this time we are not planning to delete accounts with YouTube videos.

So it erases all fears even if the deletion of accounts continues, so we will lose the content of the services

like Google Photos or Google Drive. Google’s decision does not come suddenly, but is a premeditated idea to avoid problems with the security of these old accounts.

Remember that from next December, all accounts that have been inactive for two years will begin to disappear. It will be enough to perform certain activities such as logging in, sending an e-mail or watching videos on YouTube to declare it as active.

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