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Using a different account for Youtube and Gmail at the same time

Skoal CatSkoal Cat Registered User regular
edited July 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
I make it a point to have a different user name on every single website that I use. I ere on the side of paranoid when it comes to being Internet-stalked. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to be logged into a YouTube account and a different GMail account at the same time.
I'm thinking its not possible, but I figured it would be worth asking if it was.

Skoal Cat on

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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Two different browsers.

    When I need to have two accounts up for the same site, I run one in Opera (my main browser) and one in IE.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • piLpiL Registered User regular
    If you're using chrome, ctrl-shift N creates an incognito browser with a set of temporary cookies set apart from another. This means you can log in as another name no problem. If whichever browser you use has a similar feature, you could try that.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2011
    Enable multi-logins on both Google accounts. You can switch from the menu on any Google site.

    Echo on
  • piLpiL Registered User regular
    Or Echo's techniquie works too I guess.

  • EsseeEssee The pinkest of hair. Victoria, BCRegistered User regular
    I am definitely logged in to two different accounts on Gmail and Youtube right now... I mean, I know for sure that I'm logged in on different accounts because it's my fiance's GMail and my Youtube. If you're logged into the wrong account on one of the sites, just log out and log in on the appropriate account, in my experience... should work just fine. I don't actually remember having to enable the preference that Echo mentions (maybe I enabled it a long time ago when I set up my accounts?), but making that change should work if you just can't get the sites to do what you want. I'm using SeaMonkey, which is basically Firefox with several tweaks, so at least on Firefox it should be easy to do this.

  • RamimenaRamimena Registered User new member
    piL wrote:
    If you're using chrome, ctrl-shift N creates an incognito browser with a set of temporary cookies set apart from another. This means you can log in as another name no problem. If whichever browser you use has a similar feature, you could try that.

    Incognito and Chrome use is recommended. You can also open in new window/tab whichever you prefer and its very simply to use. I can read two mail boxes in gmail this way.

  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    Just to throw it out there, the system that google uses to track users is almost guaranteed to be able to see through running two different browsers, using that "cookieless" tracking system.

    What is this I don't even.
  • Skoal CatSkoal Cat Registered User regular
    I'm not so much worried about what Google will know about me, but more what people can find by Googling me.

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