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Accounts can most often be closed or deleted permanently when one wants to stop or move. Some can change your address.


Speaking for myself, the "blast radius" of my email address is some 600+ accounts... (just looking in my password manager). The chances of me sitting down and closing every single one are non-existent. Many won't even have the luxury of having diligently tracked their login accounts in a password manager either.

Just having a family, kids, bills, schools, jobs, credit cards, banks, investments, insurance, shopping etc etc - the number of accounts many of us pick up can easily get into the hundreds.




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