[macintux]

> 1. NEVER EVER login from an email link.

I receive Google Doc links periodically via email; fortunately they're almost never important enough for me to actually log in and see what's behind them.

My point, though, is that there's no real alternative when someone sends you a doc link. Either you follow the link or you have to reach out to them and ask for some alternative distribution channel.

(Or, I suppose, leave yourself logged into the platform all the time, but I try to avoid being logged into Google.)

I don't know what to do about that situation in general.

[zargon]

> leave yourself logged into the platform all the time

Or only log in when you need to open a google link. Or better yet, use a multi-account container for google.

[macintux]

Yeah, this should have occurred to me. I guess for me it's alien to think about logging into Google.

[zahlman]

> Or better yet, use a multi-account container for google.

Pardon; a what? Got any reference links?

[vel0city]

A Firefox plugin/feature, probably also available on other browsers as well. It is useful for siloing cookies, so you can easily be logged into Google on one set of browser tabs and block their cookies on another.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

[cataflam]

As for any of these cases, we do receive legitimate emails that require being logged in, Google or otherwise

The answer is simple: use your bookmarks/password manager/... to login yourself with a URL you control in another tab and come back to the email to click it

(and if it still asks for a login then, of course still don't do it)

[tempestn]

Log into Google, then click the link. If you get prompted to log in again, don't.

[macintux]

Good point, I guess this is the obvious answer.