| Ostro said: Isn't the sense behind this to have one account that links everything? At least that's what Google made me do. My quite old YouTube account got linked to my Google account that I use on my phone which made me get googlemail and Google+. I can switch between them all, not needing to sign in or out. What you describe sounds like you created multiple accounts and now demand that they all work perfectly well together. |
This is about someone with multiple Google accounts... when you sign up for anything Google related nowdays you have to either connect to an existing Google account or else create a new one (which then naturally comes with all the other stuff like another email) Sometimes people don't want to link something to an existing Google account, or they have no choice in the matter and are forced to have a new Google account anyway (work email)
As a mirror to the example in the OP... If I were to sign into my personal GMail to check my mail, then visit YouTube at the same time, it would have already signed me in*. If I were to then switch GMail to view my work emails, the next time I refreshed YouTube it would have signed me out of my main YouTube account and would be asking me to create a new one through my work email (something I don't want)
* a further complication with my story is that my main YouTube account is not tied to my main Google account, but instead to my original Google account which I don't use for anything but YouTube... If I was actually interested in having everything tied together I could of course change the Google account that my YouTube account is connected to, but I prefer my accounts separate, and generally don't have any need to sign into YouTube anyway.
