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Yes! I've lost count of how many times I've e.g. opened Google Calendar from my current Gmail window and have it pull up the calendar on a different account wit
by SilasX 6y ago
Yes! I've lost count of how many times I've e.g. opened Google Calendar from my current Gmail window and have it pull up the calendar on a different account with no warning that it's doing that. (If I'm not logged in on the other, it asks me to log in with no option to go to the original.)
Somehow they made it impossible to specify or indicate the account in the URL to squash any uncertainty, you just have to hope the cookies are right.
- apetresc 6y agoIt's actually worse than that - the account is indicated in the URL, but it's expressed as an offset into a list of accounts in the order you signed into them! So a ".../mail/u/0/" means the first Google account you're logged into, ".../mail/u/1/" means the second, etc. But if you did it in a different order on a different machine (or even browser), it'll redirect to a completely different one. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where it was decided that was a good idea.
- SilasX 6y agoInteresting! I'd love to ask them what they think the U in URL stands for...