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Comment by tcfhgj | Hacker News Reader

I really couldn't care less about me youtube account

I can't help but think that this is a "I have nothing to hide" argument. It's quite sisyphean to keep accounts perfectly segregated, therefore there's always a chance that personal information can be traced back and pieced together; which, in turn, has "boring-old security" implications: i.e., now someone possibly knows your habbits and times when you are at work

my "personal" information there is as personal as my profile here

YouTube accounts and Google accounts have been one in the same since 2009.

Obligatory call to free yourselves from having GMail as your (only) main email and especially to not tie it to YT or other unrelated services.

I can absolutely imagine my YT accounts at some point getting banned for using adblock, some stupid private upload or some comment.

Having your own domain name is the best option (ideally not hosting on gsuite!)

Many people have had multiple gmail accounts since 2004.

I have a gmail account used solely for google store and Android TV related verifications that's unlike other business, personal, registration, or spam email accounts.

The TV's in the house, smart wifi devices, and guest wifi accounts are on separate subnets, the NAS hosted media has limited read only keyhole access accounts for TV apps to use.

Whether it's SmartTube or any other app (iView, SBSOnline, Netflix, etc) it's wise to assume that anyone can be comprised by malware to sniff traffic for (say) bank account passwords, host bots for DDOS or mining, etc.

how does this matter?

You risk losing your entire Google account along with all documents, photos, mail, and whatever else you have there. Enough stories of this happening if you look around.

you risk that regardless, which is why I don't rely on them at all

The risk always exist.

Also are you really using same account for gmail, your personal pictures/docs and youtube?

> Also are you really using same account for gmail, your personal pictures/docs and youtube?

Most people use "sign in with Google" and tie their Google account to services well beyond the Google ecosystem, just to avoid creating a new entry in their password manager (lol). You think people are making new Google accounts for each Google service? That's hard for me to believe.

Not necessarily everyone but I would expect the population visiting hacker news to do so.

If you're just a normal user the risk is very low. This almost always happens when someone using Google APIs for business purposes trips a fraud or spam detector.

one AND the same

You don't use a dedicated account for youtube?

thats super cool! some people care a lot, some people dont care at all. what a strange world.

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