So, I admit it. Computer literacy is not my strong point, I can admit to that. When I complained that this was useless, I was told it would be the best thing since sliced bread but now it's just useless

I was told that this would mean all my emails, youtube chrome etc accounts would be in one place and I can switch between them at will.

NO, when I sign into account A (my main) and try to switch to account B, it opens a new page and asks me to enter my password. Youtube keeps insisting account B is my main account but because it isn't, doesn't allow me to do anything and tries to get me to open up a new account when I already have a fully functioning one latched on to A.

If I sign into email B, eventually Google will get bored and deactivate the link between all the accounts and ask me to restart it and reconnect. 

Why is this thing so useless?

It seems to depend what order you do things in.

If you are signed into YouTube with account A, then switch to account B in GMail, the next reload of YouTube will assume you want to sign into it with account B also.

What you have to do it either stay in 1 email account whilst using YouTube (as long as you don't switch you can use two accounts at once... if you sign into B for GMail, then go to YouTube and switch to account A you can use both simultaneously... also you should be able to switch to A in GMail again without any YouTube problems, but if you then switch to GMail B again it will try to switch you in YouTube too (obviously you don't have to, and you can use the YouTube switch account feature to get back to A, but if you need to do that a lot it will get annoying) Or the other option would be to use separate browsers (maybe use 1 browser for the thing you are likely to need a lot of account switching in, probably email, then just use you main account on your main browser)

I didn't realise there were still problems like that happening with this multi account shit, I lost access to my original YouTube account when they first joined with the Google account, I couldn't remember my password and it wouldn't accept my email address to let me change the password... I think that may have been because I also had a Google account with the same email address. Anyhow, I managed to fix that problem last year

I actually have 4 Google accounts now... my original one I was forced to set up to be able to use blogger, I'm not entirely sure if I even have GMail in that Google account because it was set up with my Hotmail address (that is also the account now tied to my original YouTube account). My second Google account is for my old work email, Which prompted me to start using Gmail over Hotmail as my personal email, so my third Google account (which is my main one) was created shortly after that. And I also have another GMail account I set up mainly to get around some of the new security rules Facebook and Spotify use to stop people having multiple accounts.

tehee, rubbish

funny word

I think I liked things better when they were seperate

the old multi account was better, because when you signed out of one it did not sign you out of them all.

Interesting. On a phone it always asks you which account you want to use, if you have more than on in the system.

Which browser are you using? I'd bet Chrome would handle it better. But, I've never tried it.

Ironically, I am using chrome.

Well then.  Keep them in separate instances. i.e. open a whole new Chrome and login to account B. This way one is only A and one is only B.

the thing is it use to handle multiple logins well and allowed to switch between accounts across gmail and youtube etc. and each remembered which it was (kind of like g+ you can switch between personal and a page you created).

It also allwed you to log out of justone of the multiple users. Now it lgs them all out. So annoying. They need to revert back to the original concpet of multiple accounts they had and wokr ou tthe bugs of that one.

For even better results, use account A in Chrome and account B in Firefox.

And if you're not using it already, get the LastPass addon. It is the best thing ever to happen to user account control.