I have this bad feeling daily that for whatever reason I loose access to my gmail. Don’t think of anything shady but simply I just loose it. There is a very small chance to it but still. You can read the stories that people uploaded their family photos to google drive and the algorithm marks their kids photos CP and they loose their account. Or maybe your email is used to spam or anything similar. There is no way to talk to google support, it is an endless loop of help pages. I just can’t live with this. I know billions of people do, but I cannot. My email address is registered to hundreds of websites including government and banking sites. You could literally destroy me financially or other ways by just gaining login to my gmail. Google could cause me HUGE problems by locking me out. I decided to start transitioning to an email with my own domain. I have the doimain, I have the email client setup. So what do you do with your existing stuff? Most websites dont even let you change the email. I have to take appointment in government offices to change my email. It seems like a giant task.

Have anyone took this leap?

  • dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    52·
    1 year ago

    Yes I do. Although many sites simply wont let you change it. I will still have to try and change as many as I can

    • jetAEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      Could you give me an example of a mainstream website that doesn’t let you update your email?

      • StunningGoggles@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 year ago

        It’s been years since I used stubhub but that is one site that didn’t allow me to change it out. I lost access to that email but it’s irrelevant now anyways since I charged back them on their COVID shenanigans, I’m sure that account is blocked now.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        4·
        1 year ago

        I think it might be difficult if you used oauth to create the account. In most cases your account will just continue to be tied to that oauth provider.

        • shastaxc@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Sites that allow signup with oauth almost always have an option to change to traditional login with username/password

          • jonne@infosec.pub
            1·
            1 year ago

            You can create a new account with email, yes. Transferring to another oauth provider or to classic email login is not something you can easily do.