Will this enable the new users to pick a name of the deleted ones?
Probably not. If those are tied to accounts then people could use password resets to get access, and that might be something Google might want to avoid getting involved in.
I just got the notice on my recovery email account. Kind of pissed they are excluding accounts attached to YouTube. I know why they are excluding and I know it benefits most people because of all those classics on YouTube, but I have one that Google has artificially locked me out of because even though I know the password and have access to the recovery email, that’s not enough without the stupid phone number I no longer have 🙃
Wish I could delete it since YouTube won’t let me in and has no way of contacting them.
Yes! I have an old YouTube account that I can’t access and just want to delete, guess it’s stuck there forever
A light breeze is enough for Google to lock accounts, and they make it nearly impossible to re-access. And they have no reliable customer service you can call or email.
But the final straw for me was when they started this bullshit of saying “tell me your phone number so we can make sure it’s you”. They never had my number in the first place, so it was clear that this was pure bullshit of them trying to associate real world identities with their accounts.
After that, I said “fuck em”, changed to other providers, and haven’t look back since.
Go ahead and delete my accounts - your service is pure garbage anyway.
