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Thanks for the thoughtful response. Actually I'm talking about Google account and services in general, not just gmail. Google account also exists as an IAM ser

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Actually I'm talking about Google account and services in general, not just gmail. Google account also exists as an IAM service for various Google branded products, such as YouTube, and a lot of other external services, which use Google account as the preferred or only authentication method. It is much harder to break those once you are locked in.

observation 9y ago
Agree on Youtube, getting away from it is much harder because the expense of mass data storage causes a natural monopoly to form. I suspect it will ultimately be upended through a deeper change, likely with agent based computation.