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how does this matter?
by tcfhgj 11mo ago
how 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.