Google is driving me crazy

[Uncle Shags]

I'm thinking of ditching my gmail account entirely due to google constantly linking everything I'm doing. My major gripe is my youtube account uses an email address from way before gmail even existed, and it's got stuff on there I want to keep - right the frick where it is. Whenever I get on my youtube account it kicks me out of my gmail account, and then vice versa. It's driving me crazy, and apparently the only fix is to use one of the accounts in a different browser. It won't let me change my email address on the youtube account to my gmail address, and I can't unlink youtube from the google account that somehow got permanently attached to it. So my options are to download a new browser and have two up all the time, put up with the constant switching back and forth, or get rid of one of my accounts altogether.

I think the overt function is to easily connect your various online services, but in practice it is extremely intrusive and controlling.