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  • For those who use multiple Google accounts, how exactly you use them?

Hey everyone.

It's not a secret that many of GoS users use at least one "throwaway" Google account, simply to download and update the needed apps from Google Play Store.

I suppose that there are possible scenarious when even a privacy concious person may use multiple Google accounts.

For instance, one "work" account (only used for drive and gmail and only for work tasks and with this particular people), one throwaway account for GoS phone and one account specifically for youtube.

So, if this is your case, how exactly do you use, manage and compartmentalize your Google accounts?

Do you have to make any compromises? I suppose that if you are a Youtube content creator, you have to provide your "real" info in order to monetize your channel, which is just one example of many possible ones (and this is why a separate Youtube-only account may be used).

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    If you are able to create a google without ANY personal information then that account is kind of precious. So don't throw it away. Use it for your anonymous needs.

    Generally I find creating anonymous google accounts very difficult. As long as you can keep them totally anonymous (no home/work IP association, no phone number, no communication with any work-people/family/friends, no "relatedness" to any personal info about you) then they are useful. But as soon as you are "revealed" from one vector or another then your accounts eventually get associated together. Unless if you are very careful, in which case you might be able to keep multiple accounts with "partial" identifying information that can still be considered somewhat independent. Having multiple accounts definitely has its uses as long as your identity is not associated with them.

    If you are gonna be "revealed" to the accounts, then I don't know if having multiple revealed accounts would make much difference in the higher scheme of things.

    One example: I have an android tv box and official android boxes force you to use a google account to even start the device up. If I had had an anonymous account I could have used it for it and only for that device. That way it would get associated with the members of my home (through IP) but not "definitely" to "me". And I would throw it away when I moved and sell the box as well. But now that box is associated with my identity (had to use phone number). So when I move I will not be taking it with me to the next house.

    I also had to use a google account for school. IF I had had an anonymous account I would have only used it in school wifi environment and only use it from a VPN at home and that way I could have separated my identity from the school and my classmates and my occupation.

    So there are uses.