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You can't be logged out of both. If you sign into one you are signed into both.

by ev1 5y ago

white_box 5y ago
I mean, if I log into one, I'm gonna be logged in for both. If I logged out from one, I'm gonna be logged out from both. I just wonder, does it link these two "anonymous" accounts (when I'm logged out from both)
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  I don't think I understand, you have a google search account? Not a gmail account or account for other google service?
  - white_box 5y ago
    I meant it's a Google account overall, is it not? I log into Gmail or Youtube or on a Google Search page, and I get signed in on all of them English is not my native language, probably it's not perfect, I'm sorry
    - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
      Ok, my wife uses my computer a lot, so I'm not sure how well Google 'understands' we are different people using the same computer or just thinks that she and I, and really all my family are all the same person and for some strange reason go through periods of reading about either tech news, Italian media, or when my daughter gets a hold of it, roblox. However right now in the same browser that I am typing this, if I open mail.google.com, it is logged in as me. And when I go to youtube.com it is logged in as my wife. So there seems to be some sort of difference between the various accounts maintained by Google.
      - ev1 5y ago
        On YouTube, try clicking the icon in the top right and seeing if you have multiple accounts or "Switch accounts" show up.
        bryanrasmussen 5y ago
        yes they know I have multiple accounts I access, I'm just saying that I can be logged in on different accounts on the different services which is how I understood the original question?
- Froedlich 5y ago
  There isn't any anonymity. Google "partners" with many ISPs (Comcast, for example), co-locates equipment, and they can link your current DHCP address to your customer name. It doesn't matter whether you even have an account with a Google service. Before they had ISP account data, they knew the DHCP pool sizes and watched DNS lookups to identify users with a sufficient accuracy for most purposes. Most people visit a specific handful of sites, often at specific times or in a specific order. For users coming in countries with better privacy laws, or through ISPs too small to be "partnered", Google buys tracking cookie information from various sources. There are hundreds (thousands?) of companies in that business. Cookie tracking isn't as good for finding your specific identity, but it's very specific about where you go and what you look at, which is primo information for marketing purposes.

You can't be logged out of both. If you sign into one you are signed into both.

by ev1 5y ago

You can't be logged out of both. If you sign into one you are signed into both.

I mean, if I log into one, I'm gonna be logged in for both. If I logged out from one, I'm gonna be logged out from both. I just wonder, does it link these two "anonymous" accounts (when I'm logged out from both)

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
I don't think I understand, you have a google search account? Not a gmail account or account for other google service?
- white_box 5y ago
  I meant it's a Google account overall, is it not? I log into Gmail or Youtube or on a Google Search page, and I get signed in on all of them English is not my native language, probably it's not perfect, I'm sorry
  - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
    Ok, my wife uses my computer a lot, so I'm not sure how well Google 'understands' we are different people using the same computer or just thinks that she and I, and really all my family are all the same person and for some strange reason go through periods of reading about either tech news, Italian media, or when my daughter gets a hold of it, roblox. However right now in the same browser that I am typing this, if I open mail.google.com, it is logged in as me. And when I go to youtube.com it is logged in as my wife. So there seems to be some sort of difference between the various accounts maintained by Google.
    - ev1 5y ago
      On YouTube, try clicking the icon in the top right and seeing if you have multiple accounts or "Switch accounts" show up.
      - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
        yes they know I have multiple accounts I access, I'm just saying that I can be logged in on different accounts on the different services which is how I understood the original question?
Froedlich 5y ago
There isn't any anonymity. Google "partners" with many ISPs (Comcast, for example), co-locates equipment, and they can link your current DHCP address to your customer name. It doesn't matter whether you even have an account with a Google service. Before they had ISP account data, they knew the DHCP pool sizes and watched DNS lookups to identify users with a sufficient accuracy for most purposes. Most people visit a specific handful of sites, often at specific times or in a specific order. For users coming in countries with better privacy laws, or through ISPs too small to be "partnered", Google buys tracking cookie information from various sources. There are hundreds (thousands?) of companies in that business. Cookie tracking isn't as good for finding your specific identity, but it's very specific about where you go and what you look at, which is primo information for marketing purposes.