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by logifail 1356 days ago
> IIRC the rationale was that the personal account could persist beyond your employment, so you wouldn't lose any purchases if you switched jobs

Except if you lose access to the work email address by switching jobs, surely you're one forgotten password away from permantently losing access to the personal account too? It's linked to your _work_ email (only)...

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Yeah... all I can recall was it never made much sense to me.