&quot;Make sense since that&#x27;s how you sign into the Chrome app store to download the app.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think it makes any sense at all.<p>Even if you <i>do</i> use gmail&#x2F;google in some places (I don&#x27;t) it&#x27;s not a given that you want to tie that identity to this app or these activities.<p>A throwaway google account is getting very difficult since google automatically flags an account with no mobile phone number attached to it as a &quot;suspicious activity&quot; account, immediately forcing you to add a mobile number.<p>Google is not the Internet.  Their app store is not the Internet.  I can&#x27;t believe that the people I know to be behind this project have tied it to google in such a necessary and intimate way.