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This is the exact scenario I described one month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195943
by koolba 6mo ago
This is the exact scenario I described one month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195943
- elephanlemon 6mo agoJeez, really gives you incentive not to use Gemini.
- orbital-decay 6mo ago>Way too risky to use Google services like this tied to your primary account. Google has no problem correlating your accounts unless you know what you're doing and are ready to switch to the cypherpunk mode.
- genidoi 6mo agoThere is realistically no way to evade the account correlation systems that Google (likely) has.
- orbital-decay 6mo agoIt's not that hard actually, but separation has a maintenance/convenience cost and requires you to think before doing anything.
- genidoi 6mo agoWe're speculating here but between time correlation, browser fingerprinting and telemetry, the average user attempting to pull off a clean compartmentalisation of two accounts has no chance, even when they think they do.
- orbital-decay 6mo agoI'm not speculating, but yes, ordinary users won't be able do that, that's what my warning is about.
- genidoi 6mo agoMakes you wonder if Google models how much revenue they lose specifically to this fear, because it's very real. I would simply never use GCP or Gemini because the idea of being banned from Google for absolutely any long-tail reason is a far greater cost than any benefit I could derive from those services.
- el_duderino 6mo agoGoogle commented about this: - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-account-bans-3654171/ https://www.androidauthority.com/google-account-bans-3654171... - https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2039536001186414760?s=20 https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2039536001186414760?s=20