/Rant/ A long time ago I signed up for a Gmail account, which I still use for a few things. Then a couple years ago I got an Android phone, which required setting up a new Gmail account. And a year ago I got a new Android phone which required setting up yet another Gmail account. And last year PSU decided to switch all their pdx.edu accounts to Google Mail. I have two pdx.edu e-mail accounts (don't ask, the story is too stupid to relate). So now I have a total of five Gmail accounts, although I never use the two Android accounts.
The other day I needed to log into my Youtube account with Firefox. I clicked on the login button and up popped the PSU universal login screen. WTH? I tried several more times, but the only thing that would come up was the PSU login screen. There was no option to log in as another user. I finally called PSU's help desk. The solution turned out to be disabling a lot of Google cookies on my Firefox. I was amazed - Google had dozens of cookies on my Firefox. After disabling most of them finally Youtube's login screen came up. Unfortunately, having disabled so many Google cookies, now a Google search takes forever. The screen flickers over and over as Google goes out to numerous servers to get heaven only knows what kind of data to display on my screen (ads, most likely). I realize Google makes money on ads and I'm willing to put up with them for the benefit of the free things Google does for me and for the open source community. But creating cookies that limit the user to logging in only to Google accounts is going too far. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
