[mastazi]

This is what works for me: I open a new personal account (using a fake name) every few months, when I open the new one I delete the old one. Obviously I don't use Google for anything important e.g. email.

Basically, at any given time I'm using a throwaway account. It's like Docker for Google accounts.

It's good because I could not care less about losing the account; another welcome side effect is that every few months I get a blank slate, that way I avoid becoming a prisoner of your own bubble e.g. in relation to Youtube suggestions.

PS when opening a new account Google will ask for SMS verification and recovery email address, I use those services that give you a throwaway email address and phone number - that way Google can't "follow me" across accounts.

[dorfsmay]

This strategy does not work for somebody trying to publish and monetize content.

[throwaway82931]

OpSec is hard. I'm not going to risk that Google won't be able to connect the shadow accounts.

[mastazi]

Sure but even if they connect the dots, basically nothing is at stake, at least in my case. The only reason I have an account is for small things like Youtube's "watch later" list.

[formerly_proven]

YT subscriptions and watch later could be entirely done in a JS userscript so that no account is needed at all any more - food for thought.