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Cake day: June 27th, 2026

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  • Patreon made the process of switching my account off of Google so convoluted, I opted to just nuke my account entirely.

    This is advisable regardless of whether the service makes switching a pain or not. Linking accounts once creates a link forever. If privacy and clean separation are your goals, break the link and start from scratch.

    One retail site is giving me an error creating a new non-G account, probably because my device, a Samsung-owned tablet, is already “registered”, probably through some super invasive Google process hardware fingerprinting it and linking it to my account.

    If you can, ditch the service. This kind of fuckery should not be rewarded with hard currency.

    If you can’t, use a desktop machine to create a new account. If things don’t work in a vanilla browser, you can escalate the process by

    • deleting all cookies / using private mode (separates you from any cookie baggage you may still have)
    • using a VPN (thus thwarting IP-based identification)
    • blocking JavaScript (if the site is still usable without it) or spoofing a user agent