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Re: [LUG] Google Account

 

On 02/12/2020 13:10, maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

One way to use and keep separate, is to isolate Google & YouTube in
Firefox in its or their own container.
You can then sign in but YouTube cannot search your other data on your
device.

As I use Gmail a lot for my 'seniors' due to its better spam handling,
while also coming into them through their anti-virus check systems
(mostly Windows users) I find this safer for them than depending only on
a free anti-virus software. Very few pay for AV protection, some have it
inside their ISP charges for broadband.

Above container isolation is what I teach.
Also so they then have an account other than their ISP, some moved ISPs
and found a monthly or yearly charge to retain their email address.
Seniors do not want to change email addresses but do want to 'grab'
(perhaps unwisely) the latest cheapest ISP broadband.


Quite a rigmarole. Don't think I will bother with all that. I will just continue to watch any YouTube videos that let me in. Any others I will just ignore.

And I will have a look at PeerTube,

Neil

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