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I really couldn't care less about me youtube account
by tcfhgj 11mo ago
I really couldn't care less about me youtube account
- GaryBluto 11mo agoYouTube accounts and Google accounts have been one in the same since 2009.
- lan321 11mo agoObligatory 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.
- temp0826 11mo agoHaving your own domain name is the best option (ideally not hosting on gsuite!)
- defrost 11mo agoMany 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.
- tcfhgj 11mo agohow does this matter?
- homebrewer 11mo agoYou 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.
- tcfhgj 11mo agoyou risk that regardless, which is why I don't rely on them at all
- prmoustache 11mo agoThe risk always exist. Also are you really using same account for gmail, your personal pictures/docs and youtube?
- Zambyte 11mo ago> 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.
- prmoustache 11mo agoNot necessarily everyone but I would expect the population visiting hacker news to do so.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoIf 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.
- VerifiedReports 11mo agoone AND the same
- prmoustache 11mo agoYou don't use a dedicated account for youtube?
- impulsivepuppet 11mo agoI 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
- tcfhgj 11mo agomy "personal" information there is as personal as my profile here
- jfindper 11mo agothats super cool! some people care a lot, some people dont care at all. what a strange world.