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After reading stories like this, I've moved to "single purpose" accounts with Google. I have a youtube account, firebase account and a google analytics account, and all of them are seperate from one another. My hope here is if google shuts down a single account, I only loose access to what that account did.

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I read somewhere on HN in the last couple months that Google is prone to banning/deleting accounts that it thinks are associated with accounts it bans, so I would not do this.

I think Google allows 3-4 accounts since it's common for families to all use Gmail, so they're lenient in that regard. Obviously, creating 10 accounts with 10 Twilio numbers would arouse suspicion and those accounts would be swiftly banned.

Multiple accounts are allowed, sure. That's not the issue.

The issue is trying to use multiple accounts as a kind of loss mitigation strategy. If Google knows about your multiple accounts, and one of them gets banned, they're _all_ at risk of getting banned just for being associated with the one.

I even recall an article where the google developer account of a company was blocked because it got associated with the personal account of one of their old employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855065

Hope you're running all the up-to-the-minute anti-fingerprinting you can find. For a long while any time I went to YouTube even in a private window they'd ask me to log in under my old Google account that I hadn't used on that computer for years. It was creepy as hell and I'm still not sure if they've stopped because they can no longer associate that account with that computer or if they're just confident enough now not to ask.

Hm that sounds sketchy I am inclined to think they might think you are a bot running multiple accounts and ban you and all your accounts together.

Use different emails and phone numbers for each. At least that used to be the trick to separate YouTube channels a while ago.

"Google containers"

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