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Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

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Re: Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

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princevegeta89 wrote: post #20
quesera wrote: post #6

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" https://www.rogerebert.com/features/henny-youngman-doctor-it... In all seriousness, I recommend a browser that takes privacy seriously. It's a spectrum -- but for me, Firefox is the right answer. Compartmentalization via containers and/or profiles (and content filtering with uBlock Origin) is the only way to browse the modern web.

Any idea about brave/vivaldi?

They effectively rely on Chrome to do all the heavy lifting, and have to manually undo or alter any "bad" move Google makes. And of course they do nothing for the health of the web at large, since they keep users locked into the Chromium engine. Vivaldi is not even fully opensource, although I admit it is the one I keep around for testing compatibility with the Chrome world.

Re: Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

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princevegeta89 wrote: post #20
quesera wrote: post #6

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" https://www.rogerebert.com/features/henny-youngman-doctor-it... In all seriousness, I recommend a browser that takes privacy seriously. It's a spectrum -- but for me, Firefox is the right answer. Compartmentalization via containers and/or profiles (and content filtering with uBlock Origin) is the only way to browse the modern web.

Any idea about brave/vivaldi?

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Re: Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

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Post by princevegeta89 »

cridenour wrote: post #14
abstract_put wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started using this, but my impression of the usability is poor. E.g. I use GitHub both personally and for work, on the one hand containers are awesome because it handles the "staying logged in" really well, but on the other hand opening tabs and links is a nightmare that ends up with me duplicating every tab in the right container. I'd love it if I could say "this window is my work window, all tabs should open in w…

Not OP, but: - long clicking the + for a new tab lets you select a container - right click Open in New Container - links opened from a container stay in the container With those, it seems to cover my use cases.

Cool this sounds great!

Re: Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

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Post by lights0123 »

abstract_put wrote: post #7
bokchoi wrote: post #4

I use Firefox containers with a work and a personal container. Each container can stay logged into separate google accounts, github accounts, etc. and keep them separated. It works pretty well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I started using this, but my impression of the usability is poor. E.g. I use GitHub both personally and for work, on the one hand containers are awesome because it handles the "staying logged in" really well, but on the other hand opening tabs and links is a nightmare that ends up with me duplicating every tab in the right container. I'd love it if I could say "this window is my work window, all tabs should open in w…

Few things:

- Middle click the Plus button to open a new tab in the same container directly adjacent (instead of at the end) to the current one.

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... allows you to have different groups open within a browser window and switch between them. You can enforce a particular container per group. It may allow different "groups of groups" per window, so you can just use one group per window but use it to enforce the container.

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-and-sw... allows you to type e.g. "co work" in the omnibox to switch containers from the keyboard.

Re: Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

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Post by sk5t »

tedivm wrote: post #24

This isn't a bug, this is an explicit decision they made. It caused a bit of a stir at the time, but they went through with the change anyways. Personally for me it was the last straw, and I've since moved to Firefox.

Firefox, with account containers.
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