FYI, I have a Gmail account since June 2004. At the time, you needed an invitation to set one up. But I also just setup a Proton Mail account in about five minutes. I may or may not switch to it.
Laaksonen. Looking at Keychain Access, I see there’s one for turkkafromturku. I also have my own address that I set up a few years ago. The one problem I always seem to have had with gmail is that whenever I go to gmail.com it tales me to https://accounts.google.com/b/0/AddMailService.
Removing everything after .com gets me to a welcome page with my initial on it. [Note: it’s my heliboy##### account.] I’ve just added a recovery phone to the account. I logged out It looks like I have another account where the username is the same as my SDMB email address. Gmail is not accepting the passwords I have stored in Keychain Access. Mom and Turk are long dead, so I guess it doesn’t matter. Whoever (possibly) stole my password can have it.
Anyway, I can get logged into my own account. Only… there’s no place to check for/send/use email. Clicking the email button just brings up ‘Google account email’ (address), ‘Recovery email’ (address), ‘Contact email’ (address), ‘Alternate emails’, and ‘About me emails’. There is no Inbox (or Deleted, or Sent, or Spam) link
Go to mail.google.com; if Google is behaving itself, you should be logged in and able to view mail.
Hmm, my sister did it a lot, and the bank knew about it. Maybe that’s because my sister was already on the account before my mother died. It wasn’t until she tried to add me to the account that they realized they shouldn’t have let her continue using it, and even then, they didn’t actually cut her off.
As they were obviously incompetent, we opened an estate account (which is the right thing to do) with both of us listed as executors and with online access for both of us at a different bank.
But I’m pretty sure that banks don’t immediately assume you are a thief because you try to pay the taxes on the deceased’s property with the deceased’s money. And certainly not if you just look at the records.
(Also, my new will explicitly grants certain digital rights to my heirs and executor. I’d have to read it to be certain what they are, but i noticed the language when i reviewed the draft of the will.)
Oops, i just noticed this is FQ, and my last post was not close enough for the topic for FQ. Also, I’m going to flag this thread to be moved to IMHO, which i think is the proper place for it.
That worked!
Nothing in it but a bunch of Quora Digest emails, and a security alert that I signed on from one of the Macs. I’ll update my bookmark.
Outstanding!
Same here. I am not very techy so I need simple and easy. Gmail fits that bill. I can sign in at work, home, friends house, iPhone, tablets. I have changed my password numerous times and have never had a problem logging or re-logging in.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to help you diagnose your problem, I can only report my personal experience, which is, for me, it’s a good and easy email program.
I agree with the above, I hardly ever sign in directly, I usually sign into Google and when I click the Gmail tab I’m automatically logged in.
Moderating
While this thread started out factual, it has since moved into advice and opinion territory. So let’s move this from FQ to IMHO.
Re: MY gmail account.
Now it’s not working.
I updated my bookmark to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox. When I clicked on it a few minutes ago, it took me to the bogus page in the OP. I tried just mail.google.com, and got the same thing. When I click on the 3x3 grid of dots next to my initial (avatar) and select Gmail, I get back to the same page.
So once again, I am not having any luck signing into Gmail… which gives me no confidence in it.
I just type “gmail.com” in my browser and the sign-in page comes up, or my email (if I didn’t log out).
Nope. I still get the page in the OP. 
Have you cleared your browser cache, and deleted cookies?
OK, that worked. Really, gmail shouldn’t be such a chore.
(Also, I got logged out of SDMB when I cleared history. Off to check Farcebook…)
It worked, and I’m glad for that, but I’ve not ever experienced the kinds of problems that you’ve had with just making Gmail behave in a stable fashion. I am now wondering if it’s some combination of privacy settings on your browser, and/or which browser you are using.
Sequoia 15.3.1. For privacy, I allow Google Maps, MS Teams, and work-related things.
Yeah, something sounds totally beyond normal here. My whole company runs on the G-suite, including Gmail with our domain As a non-IT person, I anecdotally see a tiny fraction of the issues I experienced when my division was still on O365.
That sounds like a Mac OS. Which browser are you using - Safari, Chrome, etc.?
You may need to adjust your privacy settings for Gmail, and/or your browser, to keep the stupid thing from doing that.
On the other hand, me and my 200+ coworkers are all on Mac/Safari/Chrome using Gmail at the enterprise level with just about no IT support needed. It’s not simply a Mac thing.
Safari.
I shouldn’t have to do anything to use gmail, other than to put in my username and password. I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops and ask advice on message boards to get to the login page.
Next question: How do I stop getting Quora Digest emails?