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> 1. NEVER EVER login from an email link. I receive Google Doc links periodically via email; fortunately they're almost never important enough for me to actual

> 1. NEVER EVER login from an email link. I receive Google Doc links periodically via email; fortunately they're almost never important enough for me to actually log in and see what's behind them. My point, though, is that there's no real alternative when someone sends you a doc link. Either you follow the link or you have to reach out to them and ask for some alternative distribution channel. (Or, I suppose, leave yourself logged into the platform all the time, but I try to avoid being logged into Google.) I don't know what to do about that situation in general.

tempestn 1y ago
Log into Google, then click the link. If you get prompted to log in again, don't.
- macintux 1y ago
  Good point, I guess this is the obvious answer.
zargon 1y ago
> leave yourself logged into the platform all the time Or only log in when you need to open a google link. Or better yet, use a multi-account container for google.
- macintux 1y ago
  Yeah, this should have occurred to me. I guess for me it's alien to think about logging into Google.
- zahlman 1y ago
  > Or better yet, use a multi-account container for google. Pardon; a what? Got any reference links?
  - vel0city 1y ago
    A Firefox plugin/feature, probably also available on other browsers as well. It is useful for siloing cookies, so you can easily be logged into Google on one set of browser tabs and block their cookies on another. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
cataflam 1y ago
As for any of these cases, we do receive legitimate emails that require being logged in, Google or otherwise The answer is simple: use your bookmarks/password manager/... to login yourself with a URL you control in another tab and come back to the email to click it (and if it still asks for a login then, of course still don't do it)

tempestn 1y ago

Log into Google, then click the link. If you get prompted to log in again, don't.

macintux 1y ago
Good point, I guess this is the obvious answer.

zargon 1y ago

> leave yourself logged into the platform all the time Or only log in when you need to open a google link. Or better yet, use a multi-account container for google.

macintux 1y ago
Yeah, this should have occurred to me. I guess for me it's alien to think about logging into Google.
zahlman 1y ago
> Or better yet, use a multi-account container for google. Pardon; a what? Got any reference links?
- vel0city 1y ago
  A Firefox plugin/feature, probably also available on other browsers as well. It is useful for siloing cookies, so you can easily be logged into Google on one set of browser tabs and block their cookies on another. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

cataflam 1y ago

As for any of these cases, we do receive legitimate emails that require being logged in, Google or otherwise The answer is simple: use your bookmarks/password manager/... to login yourself with a URL you control in another tab and come back to the email to click it (and if it still asks for a login then, of course still don't do it)