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Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by amelius on Sunday January 23, 2022 @06:39PM (#30051854)
Perhaps you're not supposed to have more than 1 gmail account, and the assumptions in their code cannot deal with more than 1 account per user, or worse, they actively try to discourage it.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by jeroenhd on Sunday January 23, 2022 @07:36PM (#30052224)
I've been using multiple accounts for years, almost every part of the UI has the ability to switch between accounts. Youtube even still has the old Youtube account available from before the Google+ era, and switching to it is painless.

There could be many useful and useless reasons for why accounts get flagged, but using multiple accounts isn't one in my experience.

Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by supermatou on Sunday January 23, 2022 @06:55PM (#30051996)
All of a sudden? I've had those accounts for a very long time - I created them when I got an invitation to test the service (Gmail was in beta and not open to the general public.) The year was 2003, I think.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by asdff on Sunday January 23, 2022 @10:54PM (#30053557)
This would be pretty foolish on their end to discriminate this way, because I'm willing to bet 99% of their enterprise customers employees also have personal gmail accounts.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by AnonC on Sunday January 23, 2022 @10:50PM (#30053525)
There’s nothing of that sort. Gmail has long had a feature where you could link your accounts and switch between them too.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by the_snooze on Sunday January 23, 2022 @06:44PM (#30051900)
Shared accounts are a nightmare too. Google makes it a pain for a team of developers to share a single "test" account completely seperate from their individual accounts.