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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on April 09, 2009, 12:45:03 AM
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(not robotics related, but not sure where else to get help for this!)
Google no longer allows me to use gmail because:
We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead.
If you're traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com (http://mail.google.com).
Oh, and we'd like to link the URL above, but we're not allowed to do that either. Bummer.
For general information about Google, please visit www.google.com (http://) (http://) or www.google.de (http://) (http://).
But I live in Thailand . . . I follow that other link, but Gmail just hangs and doesn't allow further access . . .
Doing a trace route, this is what I find (edited):
9 34 ms 31 ms 31 ms 61-91-210-5.static.asianet.co.th [61.91.210.5] (thailand)
10 33 ms 32 ms 31 ms 61.19.10.29 (australia)
11 33 ms 31 ms 31 ms 202.47.253.130 (australia)
12 64 ms 64 ms 63 ms 74.125.50.213 (US)
17 132 ms 132 ms 131 ms jp-in-f102.google.com [66.249.89.102]
So it doesn't route through any country other than Thailand, Australia, and the US.
Googling the problem (http://www.google.co.th/search?q=%22We+can%27t+provide+service+under+the+Gmail+name+in+Germany%3B+we%27re+called+Google+Mail+here+instead) it appears people in Texas (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00468.html), Ohio (http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/internet-explorer-forum/312061-computer-ie-thinks-i-am-germany.html), North Carolina (http://groups.google.co.uz/group/blogger-help-loginissues/browse_thread/thread/c5ae38b820d17753), Switzerland (http://markmail.org/message/gs5w7txjtugpljri), and Australia (http://devilworks.com/2009/03/15/gmail-thinks-im-in-germany/#comment-31198) (2 (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090317173011AAwtXkd)) are having the same problem. Many more . . .
Anyway, until this is solved, this is why I have stopped responding to emails . . .
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And to make things annoyingly worse, as of today Google is forcing the linking of your gmail and youtube accounts. You have to have both to have either (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69964). No opt out option.
So yea, I'm now blocked out of signing in to youtube, too :(
Suddenly google is acting like microsoft with forced bundling . . .
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Ok problem went away.
Restarted my PC, and went to this link: https://mail.google.com/mail/
(or google fixed it in the last 10 minutes after I sent them a redirect error report)
Also, deleting cookies didn't work . . .
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And to make things annoyingly worse, as of today Google is forcing the linking of your gmail and youtube accounts. You have to have both to have either (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69964). No opt out option.
So yea, I'm now blocked out of signing in to youtube, too :(
Suddenly google is acting like microsoft with forced bundling . . .
I have like 5 youtube accounts under 1 email and I can use them all.
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I have like 5 youtube accounts under 1 email and I can use them all.
Yea but if a hacker gets just one, he gets them all . . . a security flaw in one opens them all up to an attack.
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(not robotics related, but not sure where else to get help for this!)
Google no longer allows me to use gmail because:
yahoo answers... :D
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Suddenly google is acting like microsoft with forced bundling . . .
hey, you can always ask them for your money back.
dunk.
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this happened to me too, but it only lasted like a day or so.