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I wonder if this is linked to something I noticed, where logging in to Google Sheets seemed to involved a redirection via a YouTube domain that was something li
by frereubu 5y ago
I wonder if this is linked to something I noticed, where logging in to Google Sheets seemed to involved a redirection via a YouTube domain that was something like auth.youtube.com
Edit: As someone else has pointed out, it was accounts.youtube.com. Feels really weird that they're authenticating a Google Workspace service via YouTube, even if they're both Google properties.
- camhart 5y agoSame thing happens when you use Google's platform.js[1] lib some of the time but not always. 1: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/sign-in https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/sign-in
- Haemm0r 5y agoSimilar happened to me when accessing maps.google.com: I was redirected to consent.youtube.com for the privacy statement.
- oefrha 5y agoSame thing with Microsoft. When you sign in on one Microsoft property, you get redirected through a whole bunch of Microsoft properties, including www.bing.com, login.live.com, outlook.live.com and www.office.com, setting cookies everywhere.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agogee it's almost like all of those properties can then track you forever and maybe have like some sort of argument as to why they were tracking you - well of course we set cookies, they hit our domain!
- a012 5y agoIt looks like Google uses the youtube.com domain for their auth process. I notice that they redirect to accounts.youtube.com everytime I use Google as my SSO.
- sneak 5y agoWhen you log in to a Google account, as the 2LD is a cookie boundary, it has to do this redirect if it's to cookie/log you in across all Google things that run on other 2LDs, such as YouTube. Seeing as YouTube doesn't have a separate auth db, and people would be confused if they logged in to google.com then weren't logged in to YouTube, this is sort of expected behavior.