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This is Google.
The history:
1) Google used to only work when signed in to a single account.
2) Google created the multi-account stuff, but to use it sites had to be part of Google#2 is the kicker... if a site isn't part of Google, and hasn't been updated (even some Google properties like Google Analytics are still single-account only)... then whatever is the first account you sign in to is the one that gets used.
On the desktop this is easy to see. Just sign in to Gmail for all the accounts you are signed in to and you'll see that the URLs look something like this:
https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#inbox
https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/1/#inbox0 = The first account
1 = The second accountIf you now visited a site that authenticates against Google, Google will just claim that you are #0, the very first account you signed in with. And you will have no way to assert that you are actually #1.
Even signing out of #0 won't help, as #1 remains #1. You need to sign out of all accounts, and then sign in with the most primary of your Google accounts first (the one you want to auth elsewhere).
It sucks... Google have never managed the multi-account stuff well.
Personally, for Persona, I use a non-Google email for pretty much this reason. And if you want to go this way, then head over to https://login.persona.org/ and set up a new email. Once done, sign in to LFGSS using that and you'll get a new account... PM me the old and new account details and I shall swap the emails around. In future, just sign in using the non-Google email.
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@Velocio, I have a question that might be more related to Android than this forum... But I know little of either...
So on my Android phone, I signed in with Gmail using my gmail account no 2, and signed in with Email with my gmail no 1*. The problem now is it won't let me log onto this forum unless I signed out and signed in with gmail no 1 that I use for this forum... Any workaround it?
*gmail no 1 is my primary email but I want to store my phone backups with a far less used gmail - no 2.
Thanks