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If you don't want to be "outed" by google, why give google the information needed to do that? Is creating 2 separate google accounts impossible these days?
by thrown7779 13y ago
If you don't want to be "outed" by google, why give google the information needed to do that?
Is creating 2 separate google accounts impossible these days?
- blueskin_ 13y agoNo, but google will do all it can to link them.
- Casseres 13y agoI thought I had two separate accounts for YouTube and Gmail. Not anymore. I used my Gmail address to register an account with YouTube. What prevents them in the future from buying some company, and link those accounts because I use the same credit card or some other supposedly unique identifier?
- gnaffle 13y agoAFAIK it's required by the new terms that you give your real name. And to do much of anything you need to verify your account with an SMS to a previously unused cell phone number.
- dredmorbius 13y agoI had two separate accounts. Google merged them despite my telling them not to. Seems to me HN covered this: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/VZSLjkdqksG https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/VZSLjkdq... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745525 http://i.imgur.com/YgEjUuI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YgEjUuI.jpg Google's proven it cannot be trusted to respect user choice, nor to not arbitrarily change the rules at a later date.