YouTube accounts and Google accounts have been one in the same since 2009.

Many people have had multiple gmail accounts since 2004.

I have a gmail account used solely for google store and Android TV related verifications that's unlike other business, personal, registration, or spam email accounts.

The TV's in the house, smart wifi devices, and guest wifi accounts are on separate subnets, the NAS hosted media has limited read only keyhole access accounts for TV apps to use.

Whether it's SmartTube or any other app (iView, SBSOnline, Netflix, etc) it's wise to assume that anyone can be comprised by malware to sniff traffic for (say) bank account passwords, host bots for DDOS or mining, etc.

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lan321 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Obligatory call to free yourselves from having GMail as your (only) main email and especially to not tie it to YT or other unrelated services.

I can absolutely imagine my YT accounts at some point getting banned for using adblock, some stupid private upload or some comment.

	▲	temp0826 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Having your own domain name is the best option (ideally not hosting on gsuite!)

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VerifiedReports an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

one AND the same

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tcfhgj an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

how does this matter?

	▲	homebrewer 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You 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.