I am in the process of moving out some contacts from Google Contacts, specifically those that I do not have a Gmail address. It’s a way for me to give these people a tiny bit more privacy, as I’m doing a cleanup of my contact list. My concern is that Google will still keep their data even after I delete it from my end. Is it so? Or does removing a contact really delete it from there?
Not directly an answer to your question, but this is a really nice gesture. I’d appreciate it a ton personally
Agreed, I didn’t think to do this but I might go through my list when I get time
While companies may secretly hold on to the data, it would also prevent future apps from abusing the data if I accidentally allow contact permissions
@lemann Thank you! Yea, many of my contact’s emails are probably on Yahoo instead, so it’s not that much of a biggie. I know nobody using Tuta or Proton or whatever. And probably they no longer care since most people use their emails only for logging in to websites that don’t support SSO with social networks/Google and just outright create a new email if they forget their password to that. But hey, less data for Google is still less data for Google.