Do you have better luck by using multi-signon? On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:03 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> /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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
