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by jasonjayr 1269 days ago
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.

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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.

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