How to get rid of Quora

pholcida

@Jenni_D, thanks for that information.  I had a Youtube account before with a different email address, so I could post on Youtube without showing publically my email address or name, and since I got the gmail account I have been signing into Youtube with that gmail, so have avoided posting any comments so that nothing shows.  I thought that if I signed into Youtube with my old Youtube identity and email address that it could log me out of my gmail account, so just accepted that I can't post comments under a safe name.

So much to get used to with having a gmail account.  I don't want it to be anything other than an email address, I don't want it used for Youtube if I can avoid that without being logged out of my email account.

JJ_Egan

Use another GMail  email address  or account for signing in .

pholcida

JJ_Egan said:

Use another GMail  email address  or account for signing in .

Can I sign into Youtube using my old Youtube name and email address, without logging me out of my gmail account?  Would I have to sign out of Youtube every time I use it, to be able to get emails in my gmail account?

JJ_Egan

No if you sign in to one Google owned app you can still sign in to all the other Google apps .individually that is or sign in to more than one .

pholcida

I tried signing into Youtube with my old Youtube name, email address and account, and whilst I was signed in tried to send myself a message on gmail to see if it still worked.  The message went into my sent folder but not into my inbox.  When I signed out of Youtube the message went into my inbox.  So presumably when I am signed into Youtube with my old Youtube identity, I can't receive emails on my gmail using my real identity.

Also weirdly, a forum I use a lot I struggle to go there without googling it, and from the google link I can't sign in to that forum.  But when I found the link in my browser history and used that to go to that forum, I could sign in.

It looks like Google has its fingers in so much of the internet, and what bothers me is its way of sharing your personal information without your knowledge.  When I first used Youtube it wasn't owned by Google, and I had made some very amateur little videos on my channel.  When I got an Android phone (owned by Google), for some reason when I signed into Youtube it replaced my previous Youtube identity (email address, username, etc) with my real name and email address, which panicked me and I immediately deleted the whole Youtube account, losing creative work that I would have liked to have kept.

For now I will have to log out of Youtube after using it, using my old Youtube identity, so it doesn't mess up my ability to receive emails on gmail, and have other weird unaccountable effects like making it difficult to sign into a forum that is totally unconnected to Google.

I might not even bother logging into Youtube at all.  It is convenient that is saves my viewing history and shows me videos that I am interested in.  But it totally messes up gmail and other things.

binao

Most information, that requires  "signing in" or "opening an account" to read, is known as "click bait".

pholcida

When I sign in to Youtube with my old Youtube identity, I am automatically logged onto gmail under that identity (I never had a gmail account for that Youtube identity), and when I log out of the old Youtube identity, I am automatically logged out of gmail.

With all the GDPR privacy laws, Google is allowed to impose their high-handed anti-privacy morality on us?

JJ_Egan

Clear history and cookies and see what happens .

Autologin reads as you are giving the information each time you log on via cookies .Or you have enable auto log on .

Go to your Google Account and check settings ,privacy etc ,

No way will any YouTube log me into any Gmail .

wongataa

pholcida said:

When I sign in to Youtube with my old Youtube identity, I am automatically logged onto gmail under that identity (I never had a gmail account for that Youtube identity), and when I log out of the old Youtube identity, I am automatically logged out of gmail.

With all the GDPR privacy laws, Google is allowed to impose their high-handed anti-privacy morality on us?

There is no such things as a separate Youtube account or Gmail account.  You have a Google account which lets you access all of Googles services such as Youtube and Gmail.  You log in/out of the account which logs you in/out of all Google services.

pholcida

wongataa said:

pholcida said:

When I sign in to Youtube with my old Youtube identity, I am automatically logged onto gmail under that identity (I never had a gmail account for that Youtube identity), and when I log out of the old Youtube identity, I am automatically logged out of gmail.

With all the GDPR privacy laws, Google is allowed to impose their high-handed anti-privacy morality on us?

There is no such things as a separate Youtube account or Gmail account.  You have a Google account which lets you access all of Googles services such as Youtube and Gmail.  You log in/out of the account which logs you in/out of all Google services.

Your main email account is for work,family, bills, and important things.  It has to show your real name so that people you deal with in the real world recognise you.  Youtube doesn't give the option to show a username, and it insists on showing your email address.  So I don't want to sign into Youtube with the personal information from my gmail account.  As for Quora and Pinterest, they have no place clogging up my important emails every couple of days with their inanities.  I have only recently got a gmail account and have no idea what else Google gives my personal information to.  I will never knowingly sign into anything  through Google, but its default seems to be to share your personal information freely without your specific permission or even knowledge and that is scary.  I am too tired to set up another email account for now.

Also I am being bombarded with emails from Google telling me to go over my privacy details, which I have already done but it doesn't stop their emails.  I have marked them as junk, as I don't suppose they will go away and there is nothing I can do to stop them.  Google doesn't have real privacy details anyway, there is nothing I can change as I would wish to.