[foreverCarlos]

Over the past serval months I realized with certainty that I should never use my personal Gmail account for any other Google services.

Gmail is Gmail only, for everything else create separate Google accounts you are not afraid to lose.

[jasonjayr]

That's not good enough, they relate multiple accounts too, sometimes incorrectly.

IIRC a company got their project booted from the play store, because one of the developers accounts got a black mark.

[foreverCarlos]

I don’t think Google will resort to matching my accounts by IP address or some fingerprinting technique.

In any case, I am in the process of migrating off Gmail too, it just takes a lot of effort. But to your point, I should probably also download all my gmail data and archive it just in case.

[kngspook]

Google Takeout is actually reasonably robust. I create/download one of those fairly regularly.