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It's actually worse than that - the account is indicated in the URL, but it's expressed as an offset into a list of accounts in the order you signed into them!

So a ".../mail/u/0/" means the first Google account you're logged into, ".../mail/u/1/" means the second, etc. But if you did it in a different order on a different machine (or even browser), it'll redirect to a completely different one.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where it was decided that was a good idea.




Interesting! I'd love to ask them what they think the U in URL stands for...




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