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Wow, that's courageous, well done. I'm envious. I'm still battling with the sunk-cost fallacy mostly related to my youtube account. My gmail just redirects to my new mail address currently, so that's sort of sorted until I've gone through 20 years of created accounts that are linked to it.
Thanks! Even if you can't detach completely the fact that you don't accept it and try to escape is a big step forward that many don't take.
That's part of my issue. I'm a former content creator and still want to keep the videos from those years up and available. I don't really use subscriptions or anything though so I can browse without an account.
I closed out 2 google accounts entirely this month, and just about finishing migrating various accounts to use my new tuta email. I'm still keeping my last 2 accounts up just in case (I've had cases where very important emails sent from tuta were getting filtered by the recipient, but gmail seemed fine). But on those two accounts, I've totally purged all existing emails, emptied Drive, etc. I'm also on Fi as it's basically the only remotely affordable mobile plan around here. So I'm about as distanced as I can get at this point, but not entirely off yet.