On: Some discouraging anecdotes on how services handle...

[AnonC]

AFAIK, with the default domains owned by the email providers, Gmail and Yahoo don’t recycle unused/deleted gmail/yahoo addresses ever (whereas other paid providers like Fastmail, Posteo, etc., do recycle within a few months or in a year or so). One needs to be wary of address recycling policies while using somebody else’s domain.

[paranoidrobot → AnonC]

This is talking about registering with example@gmail.com on ServiceX.

Then you ask ServiceX to delete your account, and they instead change your email address to example-deleted@gmail.com or something like that.

I doubt GMail are going to stop you registering accounts that have arbitrary portions of your email being another registered user.

[AnonC → paranoidrobot]

GP here. I understood that part on later reflection. Yes, any random name-deleted address could be registered by someone else.

I’m unable to edit my previous comment now and correct it. Will add a note as a reply anyway.

[AnonC → AnonC]

I’m unable to edit my comment above, but I understood the problem of changing the email address (even to something like name-deleted, since it could be claimed or already registered by someone else). In this context, my comment above is pointless. :(

Thanks also to @paranoidrobot for the additional explanation.