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I have a couple (e.g spam, uni, personal) and it's so profoundly unhelpful to make me sign into them one at a time by coordinating between 2 or more different devices. an occasional spot check for security would make sense if I was just booted out of one account, but instead it logs me out of every single one at once?? What gives?

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[-] Toes@ani.social 8 points 13 hours ago

Technically, you're not allowed to have multiple Google accounts from their perspective. So the tooling isn't setup for it. You're probably also looking like a bot to them.

I'd suggest using the profile feature in Firefox so you can configure different contexts based on your needs such as a personal, uni and spam profile.

They also sell a hardware authentication device that might help simplify matters. It's called a Titan Security Key. You would need to research it to find out if it'll support being bound to multiple accounts.

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 13 hours ago

I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.

[-] gigachad@piefed.social 10 points 14 hours ago

I don't want to be that guy, but you should think about ditching google, a password manager can easily replace this "just use your gmail account so we can track you and you are locked in forever"

Tap for spoileractually, I love being that guy

[-] trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

I love it for you

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I will look into it, I've been too lazy to do so until now. And now they've made switching away from google the most energy/effort efficient option, lol.

I do hate the tracking

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

Google hates you.

They hate most people, really.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 17 hours ago

I only ever have to log back in on a device I was logged into if I delete all my cookies or have not logged in on that device in a long time. You're not deleting your cookies, are you?

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I haven't tried to, maybe it happens automatically on firefox or something

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

I don't know, I cut those fuckers out of my life.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago

Sounds like Google doesn't create per-account cookies and uses one cookie set per browser instance, so you're either logged in or you're logged out, one account at a time.

Browser containers or profiles might be the answer to what you need.

I've been using different Firefox profiles to run accounts in parallel for well over a decade at this point. Containers might be able to do the same thing, but on account of the aforementioned, I've stuck with the old way of doing things.

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

If this is true I wonder the security implications of sharing cookies across multiple accounts?

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

I don't have this issue. It sounds like Larry Page and Sergey Brin just don't like you

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Because I know too much about epstein 😰

[-] zo0@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago

Idk man I don't work at Google

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