Per advice here, I have gotten in the habit of prefinishing parts before assembly. It makes the joint corners neater and allows me a lot less stress about squeeze-out.
...but...
Working only on weekends - and sparingly at that - I take a long time to finish a project, so that tape is likely to be on for a good while. In this case it must have been a month or more.
I just removed a bunch of tape with some difficulty. It came off, but in many small pieces, which is a pain. I used some green tape and some blue tape. The green was easier to remove, but that may have been more a matter of location; those edges didn't get covered in stain and finish to the same degree that the blue tape did.
So I'm wondering what you folks use, and what you might use if you knew it wouldn't be coming off for many weeks.