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Google only asks you to login if it knows you have an account.

• jimktrains2 9y ago
  That still feels like a problem to me. Just show it as unauthenticated if I'm not authenticated.
• mrguyorama 9y ago
  I find the fact that google feels it's okay to track you like that disturbing
• dingo_bat 9y ago
  Somehow that's even worse.
• Analemma_ 9y ago
  That doesn’t make it ok. If anything that’s worse.
• acdha 9y ago
  The problem is that they completely botched the user experience a decade ago and since it's yet another orphaned product it's never been improved. How it should work following a “build your first web app” tutorial: 1. User opens page 2. You detect an old login cookie and discretely ask if they want to login 3. If they do so, you see the previous page with more UI (e.g. subscribe, reply, etc.) How it works now: 1. Users opens page 2. Instead of looking at the content they wanted to see, the user is automatically redirected over to a login page with a mandatory full two-factor check even if you've recently logged in to other Google properties 3. After completing that process, you're dumped on the groups.google.com homepage 4. Since there were a bunch of redirects, you have to know how to use your browser's history to go back 3-4 pages because simply hitting back will just redirect you to the homepage again.