During the years i’ve been subscribed to plenty of stuff, changing email (getting away from gmail) would seem impossible as i would have the fear to lose some old account i forgot but that i may need in the future. During 2021 i’ve been subscribed to plenty of crypto trading exchanges, KYCed on most of them, most even if deleting the account, do not delete your personal data.
I was doing trading, and doing it without a centralized exchange wasn’t really an option as i was trading plenty of stuff and in low volumes.
I’m subscribed to Instagram but my account got locked because i was using Barinsta and advertising 3rd party apps, so now i can’t even access it to delete it.
I won’t mention what, but there are also other accounts tied up to my prepaid card name and purchases, and to my name in the email as well…
I feel like i’ve been fucking up and i feel a bit overwhelmed by the fact that i know i won’t be able to remove important pieces of data from the web.
I wish there was something like coinjoin for accounts as well🤣.
Am i being too paranoid or overstating the risk? How’d you act in my place?
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Generally speaking, if you forgot you have the account while actively trying to think about it, you likely won’t miss it.
If you’re really worried about losing access to somewhere important, I would recommend migrating them one by one. Once you migrate one account to your new mail, move all the mails from that service to another folder. If you have e-mails from services you deem not important enough to migrate, just move them to another folder (or delete them).
Proceed until there are no more e-mails in your original inbox.
And put the account details in a password manager so you don’t lose them.
And if you already use a password manager delete any accounts from there that you attempted to use but you couldn’t login any more with the stored credentials. Especially on sites where you suspect that they just delete old inactive accounts.
