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> If you have to use GCP, use a burner account

Does that actually help? Don't they collect enough of your data to be able to correlate accounts?



You're going to have to start using your GCP like it's a freedom fighting session. Never used from the same public wifi. Don't use a public wifi within xDistance from your house. Only interact with GCP from a freshly spun up VM/Tails boot/etc. If no available wifi access, only use a mobile hotspot that is prepaid in cash where the burner was bought by someone else (so their shiny mugs are on the security camera), buy that burner in a different town, and all the other paranoid things to safe in a hostile world. Just to use Google


I just use Whonix in a QubesOS VM routed via Tor.


That works? I would expect Google to ban accounts just for using Tor.


You will get lots of captchas during login but otherwise it works fine. I begrudgingly use some Google services every day, but at least via Tor.


Perhaps, but better safe than sorry. If you had a small business and relied on Google Workspace, the damage for one mistake like this could be incalculable.

Imagine losing your contacts, your photos, your emails with clients, your cloud setup… because you had the humanity to take care of your child.

It is impossible to underestimate Google now.


This is starting to sound daunting. I’ve recently got few strikes for posting few pics of my kids at the beach on Instagram (Close Friends audience). Even if when my accounts were originally seperate from Facebook, they are connected. Loosing access to FB messenger would be PITA.

Much worse - losing access to iCloud/iPhone would be disastrous




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