[hbn]

Several years back I wanted to try my hand at making an Android app and putting it in the Play Store. I knew ahead of time from reading all the horror stories that it's best to make a second dedicated developer Google account because once you turn an account into a developer account you're basically painting a target on your back to be randomly deleted by the powers that be. Additionally, not sure if this is still the case but at the time once you converted to a developer account you could never change your account's country again.

[rurp]

The last time I tried to make a new Google account it required a valid phone number, so this might require getting a second phone line these days. I wouldn't trust Google to only disable one account if there is a related one using the same number.

[alyandon]

Even that won't protect you from being banned if Google ever infers that the two accounts are related.

I just refuse to use Google for anything other than mail at this point.

[prirun]

I even got off gmail because of these horror stories. If they banned my gmail account it would be a major pain and I'd have no recourse.