Proton Mail: Difference between revisions
Data portability; deletion of inactive accounts instead of contents only. |
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As of 2025 many users continue to voice their concerns regarding the inactive account policy, while advocating for sensible measures such as deleting only the contents in the inactive accounts while sparing the accounts themselves.<ref>https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/48235556-inactive-account-policy-keep-account-when-deleti</ref><ref>https://proton.me/support/inactive-accounts</ref> | As of 2025 many users continue to voice their concerns regarding the inactive account policy, while advocating for sensible measures such as deleting only the contents in the inactive accounts while sparing the accounts themselves.<ref>https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/48235556-inactive-account-policy-keep-account-when-deleti</ref><ref>https://proton.me/support/inactive-accounts</ref> | ||
The Proton team has stated on Reddit that the inactivity account policy aims to "manage their resources in a sustainable way", which can be translated into "reducing operating costs". In the comments, it was noted that retaining the accounts themselves indefinitely and only purging their contents would not noticably increase operating costs compared to deleting | The Proton team has stated on Reddit that the inactivity account policy aims to "manage their resources in a sustainable way", which can be translated into "reducing operating costs". In the comments, it was noted that retaining the accounts themselves indefinitely and only purging their contents would not noticably increase operating costs compared to deleting entire accounts, given that login information is all that would have to be retained. ProtonMail also does not allow registering email accounts with the same address as deleted email accounts to prevent impersonation, which only is possible because they keep the deleted email addresses in their records.<ref>[https://archive.today/2025.10.05-160133/https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1bzt1ka/protons_new_policy_for_free_inactive_accounts/ Proton's New Policy for Free Inactive Accounts : ProtonMail] - Reddit</ref> | ||
== Data portability == | == Data portability == | ||