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

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post #195

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Not sure why you're being so harshly downvoted, Chromium and derivatives have pretty solid profile switching. Doing this would actually be less work than signing out/in to other accounts.

It doesn't solve the problem I brought up - I was asking how to avoid switching profiles if I was sharing one between multiple people. GP's suggestion was to switch profiles. Suppose I and my partner want to be able to bookmark something and have it show up on both of our phones. Is there a way to do that without sharing a Gmail account? That seems like a pretty common use case to me that was pretty easy to do before…

> GP's suggestion was to switch profiles.

No, my suggestion was to create separate user accounts on the shared computer for each person--i.e., each person logs in to the computer with their own user account. That would make all of the website logins separate for each user, without anyone having to switch profiles in their browser.

However, I apparently misunderstood your problem; you don't want everything separate, you just want gmail separate while still sharing Chrome profiles. You're right that my suggestion won't solve that problem.

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

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post #198

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This is not useful to me because it creates multiple windows. I don't want that separation. I want what I have now. It was very good.

Does it actually work now? How do you manage two separate logins in a single window in Chrome. FF manages this with containers but I know of no way of doing this with Chrome.

I used to do this in chrome. You can click on your profile picture in the upper-right corner of the gmail UI to switch accounts. You end up having a different URL per user, like " rel="nofollow">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/, where is 0 or 1 if you have two users. You can put these in bookmarks and have them open in different tabs.

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

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post #76

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Your live depends on facebook?

I love my relatives, and Facebook is how they communicate.

Don't they all have email addresses?

I'm not saying that you're entirely wrong, because I've used that rationalization for keeping Facebook in the past.

What I do instead is just maintain an address book of everyone I know and send them an update on my life every once in a great while. It's much more fulfilling.

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

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It's time to start replacing Google in your life.

Chrome -> Firefox

Search -> DuckDuckGo

Gmail -> ProtonMail (not strictly, but my recommendation)

Docs -> OnlyOffice

YouTube -> Use NewPipe if you have Android. There's BitChute but it has a lot of right-wing crap.

Play Store -> F-Droid (if using Android)

Google Drive -> Dropbox

Google Maps -> HERE WeGo, or Mapquest

Google News -> Yahoo! News

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

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It's time to start replacing Google in your life. Chrome -> Firefox Search -> DuckDuckGo Gmail -> ProtonMail (not strictly, but my recommendation) Docs -> OnlyOffice YouTube -> Use NewPipe if you have Android. There's BitChute but it has a lot of right-wing crap. Play Store -> F-Droid (if using Android) Google Drive -> Dropbox Google Maps -> HERE WeGo, or Mapquest Google News -> Yahoo! News

> YouTube

I’ve been using YouTube via RSS feeds for a while. Requires no logins or anything to youtube, and I can still get the content only available there like Sixty Symbols and Numberphile. It’s great!

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

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post #198

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Does it actually work now? How do you manage two separate logins in a single window in Chrome. FF manages this with containers but I know of no way of doing this with Chrome.

I used to do this in chrome. You can click on your profile picture in the upper-right corner of the gmail UI to switch accounts. You end up having a different URL per user, like " rel="nofollow">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/ , where is 0 or 1 if you have two users. You can put these in bookmarks and have them open in different tabs.

This is called "multilogin". You sure can bookmark them, but if you ever happen to get logged out and then you log back into them in a different order, you'll find that the 0/1/2 really do refer simply to "the th Google account I signed into", so your bookmarks might not work.

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

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post #172

It started with an older version. Logging into Google automatically linked your Google account to the settings page. At least in the last version, clearing your private data (ctrl-shift-delete) no longer deleted Google cookies. To completely log out required manually digging into the advanced settings and then rebooting the browser. Google fundamentally doesn't respect user privacy, and people should use Firefox.

I agree, sadly its never that simple. I tried diligently (all in) to use Quantum when it came out, for over a month. It just wasn't stable/fast enough when running a larger number of tabs. I'm hopeful it will get there soon and I can ditch Chrome but its just not there for me, yet.

It might depend on your system resources, but I have +300 tabs open right now and I don't experience any problems. The only thing that's a bit slow is if I restart the browser, it takes a bit long to start up.

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

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It started with an older version. Logging into Google automatically linked your Google account to the settings page. At least in the last version, clearing your private data (ctrl-shift-delete) no longer deleted Google cookies. To completely log out required manually digging into the advanced settings and then rebooting the browser. Google fundamentally doesn't respect user privacy, and people should use Firefox.

Alternatively, Brave browser seems to Un-Google their Chromium based browser: https://brave.com/download-dev/

"Brave Core will arrive in beta form in late September and in major release form most of the way through October" https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-ad-blocking-browser-gets-chr...

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