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Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by 2ion »

fareesh wrote: post #28

This causes a few other problems. For example I use Hangouts Chat (chat.google.com) on my Google Apps account, and I also have a personal gmail. Ever since the change I have to log out from my personal gmail to use Hangouts Chat, because it is looking at my Chrome account and telling me that I'm not part of the organization. I can't switch to the Google Apps account at all.

Firefox has gained a feature called multi-account containers several releases back solving exactly this kind of problem in a slick way: Your tabs can be assigned to different accounts (represented by different colors/names/icons (which are configurable). Each account has its own cookies etc, allowing you to be signed in to any number of services while keeping them separated.

I use this feature heavily to separate different clients.

It's also the reason why Chrome/Chromium are now out of the question for personal use: Much to complicated to keep things separated.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by kstrauser »

rosser wrote: post #70
superkuh wrote: post #64

If it's a problem you should stop using both gmail and Chrome. Don't support companies that are anti-user.

My choice to use gmail was made by my employer. I like my job. How am I supposed to pass, again?

Are you sure? My employer uses gmail, which I access via Mail.app exclusively. I bet I open the web app maybe once or twice a year, usually by clicking a link in a calendar event.

It's perfectly possibly to use gmail-the-service without using gmail-the-app.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by superkuh »

rosser wrote: post #70
superkuh wrote: post #64

If it's a problem you should stop using both gmail and Chrome. Don't support companies that are anti-user.

My choice to use gmail was made by my employer. I like my job. How am I supposed to pass, again?

Sounds like you've made your choice. A bad employer at a job you like is more important than software ethics. No need for my input here. But it is your choice.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by epicide »

prepend wrote: post #26
marssaxman wrote: post #10

This kind of chicanery is the reason I won't use Chrome for anything but browsing Facebook.

I never use chrome except with gmail and other google services where I have an account. I think there's a market for this kind of systema. I'm surprised anyone privacy minded still gets concerned about Google as they've been pretty open about everything since the launch of gmail. They give you free stuff in exchange for ads. Chrome must send data, even if you aren't signed in. Google has a shadow profile for you anyw…

> I'm surprised anyone privacy minded still gets concerned about Google as they've been pretty open about everything since the launch of gmail. They give you free stuff in exchange for ads.

They're open about the fact that they use your data but not as to how they use it. Even if they were, they have a high motivation to abuse it further and further since that is their business model.

Besides, I don't see how being open about invading your privacy makes it not invading your privacy.

Sub out Google/gmail with Facebook and see how that reads.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by plytheman »

superkuh wrote: post #64

If it's a problem you should stop using both gmail and Chrome. Don't support companies that are anti-user.

Advice on a good mail service? I've got one foot in the door of really increasing my privacy online but one is still stuck behind with Google products.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by Eridrus »

fareesh wrote: post #28

This causes a few other problems. For example I use Hangouts Chat (chat.google.com) on my Google Apps account, and I also have a personal gmail. Ever since the change I have to log out from my personal gmail to use Hangouts Chat, because it is looking at my Chrome account and telling me that I'm not part of the organization. I can't switch to the Google Apps account at all.

Every Google product I've seen has an account switcher, usually in the top right corner, with either your display image or a letter in a circle, this includes Hangouts Chat.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by na85 »

plytheman wrote: post #78
superkuh wrote: post #64

If it's a problem you should stop using both gmail and Chrome. Don't support companies that are anti-user.

Advice on a good mail service? I've got one foot in the door of really increasing my privacy online but one is still stuck behind with Google products.

Protonmail or fastmail are both decent.
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