[tluyben2]

I have accounts over 20 years old I use every few years. I would not be very amused if your suggestion takes off.

I can see simple things happening though that work towards this; for my pet project I just coded a feature that hashes email addresses of inactive (3 months without any interaction) and using another differently salted hash of their email address (which we then no longer have after this) to encrypt their data. They can still login, which restores their account and data without them noticing, but they will never receive email and possible breaches hurt less.

[robbedpeter]

Nobody is suggesting you can't consent to long term storage, we're advocating for a sane, privacy respecting default.

[ThrustVectoring]

https://steamcommunity.com/id/ruakai/recommended/582660/

This is the sort of experience that you want. In case you don't want to click through, this is someone with over 1700 hours in an MMO who lost all their progress and items because they took a break and missed the GDPR-related opt-in to get their account transferred.