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I sometimes log in to my child's school Google account on my computer - the school holds school events by sending invites to the child's account. When I "log out", I'm not truly logged out, as shown by the popups on various websites encouraging me to log in using my child's Google account.

When I clicked this link, it said my administrator has not allowed me to view this site.

The only way out of this that I've found is to clear Google's cookies.

Correction - there is another way out: just don't visit the site. Dealing with Google is just not worth the hassle.



There’s also the fun part where you can’t organize Google accounts (e.g. which account is the default). I have two Google accounts, my main account and a professional account. My main account is where I use things like YouTube and my personal email. If the two accounts get swapped and my professional account becomes the default, the only way to fix this is by logging out of all the accounts and logging in again in the right order. Fun experience! Especially with MFA and physical keys.


I think this is the rationale for profiles in chrome. Because this is infuriating for anyone who has to juggle professional and personal google accounts.

You can also use multi-account containers in firefox [1]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...


I’ll give multi-account containers in Firefox a try and see if that improves the experience. Thank you!


Google has sort-of tried to support multiple accounts for at least a decade and it never entirely worked. Multiple Chrome profiles (or the equivalent in other browsers) is the way to go.


My company uses Google Workspace. On Google help pages (like the Sheets documentation) we can't access the embedded (public) example documents. We have to open them in an "incognito" window.




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