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I don't surf logged in, and being offered a Google Groups login when expecting an article is jarring. Perhaps "login required" links ought to be indicated.

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I just opened the url in incognito to see and it loaded fine. No where did it ask me to log in.

Your experience will differ on Google, depending on what cookies you have.

Some of us are 'partially logged in' and it's asking for a password. No doubt you may not be affected.

Strange, just deleted all Google-related cookies, am not signed in, and do NOT get prompted to.

I think what he's saying is if Google leaves cookies on your computer that contain your userid, but you're not logged in (similar to trying to access Google Apps Administration or your own Google user account settings where it always prompts for a password) then it will prompt you to fully log in.

Ahh that makes sense, thanks.

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