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Comment by TazeTSchnitzel | Hacker News Reader

I'm stuck with Google Mail, but I too am moving away slowly from Google. I hate how Google makes it difficult to have more than one account. Although this is mostly because my primary account is banned from YouTube (without explanation), and also from Google Play/Checkout/Wallet (failed debit card transaction??), and also from Google Checkout for Merchants (without explanation).

I hate being unable to buy Android apps :(

Edit: I just bought an email account from Namecheap.

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In what way do you find Google makes it difficult to use multiple accounts at once? I've been blown away at how easy and comprehensive the multilogin support is, and am curious about how your experience was different.

YouTube makes it very difficult to use a different account to your main. I know other Google services are reasonable in this regard, though, but I don't really care about them.

I just click my username on the upper right of any YouTube page, and there's a "switch account" link. Do you not have one, or does it not work well for you somehow?

That logs you out.

"Sign out" logs you out. "Switch account" lets you switch accounts. Or at least it does when I click it. Does it really log you out when you click it?

I don't see "Switch account", I only see "Sign out, and sign in as a different user" for YouTube.

How to turn on multiple accounts (account switching):

https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Oh, YouTube finally supports it. It didn't before, thanks for that.

Interesting - I have the exact opposite experience. I was amazed at how easily I could integrate multiple accounts in to one interface and switch between them seamlessly. But it sounds like you had an unusual (I hope!) experience, so that could be causing it.

Very similar to my experience. I hate the creeping "accountization" of Google services - especially since they started to auto-login into YouTube.

The problem I see with Google is, that the switching costs are really low and there is not a lot of lock-in of the users. This is something they are trying to improve with Plus, but if a better/more convenient email provider comes along, I would be out in a second. Plus this would mean my log ins over all sites would be dropping to maybe checking Plus or YouTube once every two week or so.

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