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0 pointsmentat12y ago0 comments

That's odd because I never do. I'm using two-factor and I only have to retype login information when that expires (approximately 30 days I believe.) Also, someone did phish my Google cookies and Google immediately shutdown my account and made me type in something from a text to reactivate my account. Overall I'm pretty happy with both of those circumstances.

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Moto745112y ago

This happens to me weekly. One problem in my case is I have three Google accounts (1 work, 1 Personal Gmail, 1 Youtube).

Some of the accounts don't work in every context, i.e. the pre-Google YouTube account doesn't seem to work for displaying public Google docs embedded PDFs. Sadly the accounts can be linked but not merged[1] which means I'm stuck.

[1]http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

mjn12y ago

Good point; I wonder how many people take that approach. I personally tend to log out of Gmail after I read my email, which signs me out of my Google Account fairly regularly. But maybe that's an unusual use pattern.

555562412y ago

I always log out of my Gmail account when I am done reading my e-mail, as well. Until recently, when I've come across several people who stay logged in all the time, I thought that was the 'normal' use pattern. Then again, I'm old and "back in the day" you always logged out of an application/system when you were done.

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