May be very silly of me, but I avoid using Gemini on my personal Google account. I use it at work, because my employer provides it.

I am scared some automated system may just decide I am doing something bad and terminate my account. I have been moving important things to Proton, but there are some stuff that I couldn't change that would cause me a lot of annoyance. It's not trivial to set up an alternative account just for Gemini, because my Google account is basically on every device I use.

I mostly use LLMs as coding assistant, learning assistant, and general queries (e.g.: It helped me set up a server for self hosting), so nothing weird.

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CamperBob2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

For what it's worth, there was an (unfortunately unsuccessful) HN submission from a guy who got his Gemini account banned, apparently without losing his whole Google account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007906

	▲	surgical_fire an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Comforting to know that they may ban you from only some of their services, I guess? I really regret relying so much on my Google account for so long. Untangling myself from it is really hard. Some places treat your email as a login, not as simply as a way to contact you. This is doubly concerning for government websites, where setting up a new account may just not be a possibility. At some point I suppose Gemini will be the only viable option for LLMs, so oh well.