Google Account

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Google Account is an identity that can be used to authenticate for all of Google’s services, as well as other services using OAuth.

How to

Activity controls — use this to pause (turn off) Google Web & App activity, Location History, and YouTube History.
Also go to https://myactivity.google.com/ and turn off Web & App activity and YouTube history

To view which sites/applications have permission to use your Google Account, and selectively remove them, go to:

See also: appaccess for links to view and remove permissions on other accounts/sites.

multi-factor authentication
- using TOTP
removable phone number
- creating a new Google Account may (does?) require a phone number for Google to send a text message or a call with a code. However, once your account is setup, you may remove (de-associate) the phone number from your account, e.g. to avoid SMS account recovery vulnerabilities, once you setup another second factor authentication, such as a TOTP application
OAuth — see How to see and remove what can use
View activity on the account — see My Google Activity
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My Google Activity is https://myactivity.google.com/ where a Google Account user may change preferences about how much Google retains about their usage of various Google services, and some of this was reset to track users on 2022-03-29 per Ars Technica: Google Workspace will re-enable tracking for many users today