PSA: As of October 2022, YouTube may be revealing your gmail address if you haven't taken action to mitigate it

It seems that YouTube may have just made a HUGE privacy blunder. YouTube now has account handles again, and they have automatically set every account to use the associated Gmail username as the handle associated with the main channel of the account. So even if you have already taken steps to customize your channel and hide the underlying username (which used to be an airtight way to completely obscure the username from the public), it has been exposed again. You …

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