Weird timing. I was just dealing with an issue related to this.
I had a work a phone. I restored an image to my personal iPhone and just today tried to sign on to Youtube. It redirected me to the SSO page for my former employer's page. Why? I guessed I'd signed on to my corp Google account on my phone at some point and it remembered. Googling didn't find an easy answer. There was no opt out button (on the login screen or on YT) and no clear way to bypass it. After some googling I ended up just deleting every Google related cookie on my phone and that seemed to clear it up.
This is a terrible user experience.
But even when you are signed in to more than one account it's terrible. You get a link to a Google doc, click on it and it says "you don't have permission". More often than not Google has decided to try as your personal Google account not your corp account. But I bet there is a ton of confused people who click "Request Access" and are confused why it doesn't work.
I haven't experienced the author's issue of 43 sign-ons a day. Sounds like a bad enterprise setup.
I'm not sure what the solution to this is but my first thought is resource ownership should be clear from the URL eg it should use a domain name other than google.com. There are probably problems with that. Whatever the case, currently it's terrible.
More often than not I find myself segragating Google accounts by browser (or browser profile). That's a pretty clear sign the product experience, well, sucks.
I just hate it when clients / employers try to get me to use a Google account.
If not careful, set it up once, in one place (ie email), and you’ll get logged into that account for every single Google app on your iPhone.
No, Google, I don’t want to use Google Maps with some random account some client set up for me. I just want to get their emails. Nothing more.
Then, of course, there’s trying to join a Google Meet meeting, and having to play around with the Google account selection.
But the funniest was when I had my own GSuite org, with almost every service turned off.
I’d get redirected to the admin panel, but then switching to the client’s org’s account would redirect to their admin panel, to which I didn’t have access.
And getting back to the initial app (drive or meet), would bring me back into the account linked to my org, thus the admin panel… After a couple times, I ended up systematically opening those links in a private browsing window.
I had a work a phone. I restored an image to my personal iPhone and just today tried to sign on to Youtube. It redirected me to the SSO page for my former employer's page. Why? I guessed I'd signed on to my corp Google account on my phone at some point and it remembered. Googling didn't find an easy answer. There was no opt out button (on the login screen or on YT) and no clear way to bypass it. After some googling I ended up just deleting every Google related cookie on my phone and that seemed to clear it up.
This is a terrible user experience.
But even when you are signed in to more than one account it's terrible. You get a link to a Google doc, click on it and it says "you don't have permission". More often than not Google has decided to try as your personal Google account not your corp account. But I bet there is a ton of confused people who click "Request Access" and are confused why it doesn't work.
I haven't experienced the author's issue of 43 sign-ons a day. Sounds like a bad enterprise setup.
I'm not sure what the solution to this is but my first thought is resource ownership should be clear from the URL eg it should use a domain name other than google.com. There are probably problems with that. Whatever the case, currently it's terrible.
More often than not I find myself segragating Google accounts by browser (or browser profile). That's a pretty clear sign the product experience, well, sucks.