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by londons_explore 26 days ago
> google knows it's the same household as the parent,

Nearly all these linkages are due to people sharing recovery email addresses and phone numbers. Don't do that.

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Are you honestly saying that a kid should not use their parent's email address as a recovery option? Seems like that would be the natural way to do it.
I don’t know about you, but I have a family account that we use as an email recovery for kids.

Adults have multiple emails so they won’t have to share it.

If something takes out the family email account, that’s fine. The only thing going there regularly are school notices, contractor receipts and recovery emails.

Point is that if one account gets suspended, all your accounts might. Your kids', the family account, your separate one that you use for gcp billing etc
It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.