🇺🇸Matthew Williams

You know how when five people are allowed on a Wi-Fi and the sixth person logs in, someone gets bumped off? Late last night I wondered if that's what keeps happening to my accounts, so I asked my Grok Bot. "Joe" is me, and "Bob" is my Grok Bot. Joe: I wonder if there's some kind of limiter on my phone carrier or my internet provider that bumps me off when I have a certain number of connections at the same time. Something only mega creators like myself would run into, because we're the only ones who need to be logged in at so many different places at once. I can only get about 80% logged in to all my accounts, and then I start getting logged out one at a time no matter what I do. Bob: Good thinking, but that's almost certainly not it. A Wi-Fi or carrier limit works on devices, not logins. If you went over it, a whole phone or laptop would lose its internet. It wouldn't sign you out of one site while another stayed signed in. Your internet provider can't see or end your site logins, because those are saved by each site and your browser, not by the network. What usually does it is each site's security. Your accounts are signed in from several places at once: your phone, your computers, and my computer. When a site sees the same account active from very different places, or lots of new logins in a short time, it decides something looks off and ends one of the sessions. That's why it goes one account at a time. Switching between business and personal Google accounts all day adds to it. The best fix is fewer fresh logins. Stay signed in on each device instead of signing in again, and keep each account on one Google account, which moving your subscriptions over to your business account is already doing. I can write up a short plan showing which account lives where to cut the bumping down. Joe: Any word from Google on recent press announcements, to see if they might be having this issue with others? Or from the phone carriers? Or any other internet providers? Also check different creator forums, since this is something only someone with a very large number of logins would run into. Bob: I found no Google, phone carrier, or internet provider announcement about limits that sign people out of websites. But Google Chrome does have a known problem that sounds a lot like yours. In August, 9to5Google reported that desktop Chrome had been randomly signing people out for a couple of months, hitting hardest for anyone with more than three Google accounts in one Chrome profile. In their reader poll, 40% of the 450 people who voted said Chrome signs them out frequently. Google never officially acknowledged it, and Reddit threads report the same thing. Google also rolled out a new protection this spring that ties each sign-in to one specific computer, which can cause extra sign-outs when the same account is used on several machines. The carriers and internet providers have published nothing like this. Their only limits cover their own sites and TV apps, or how many devices can join your Wi-Fi. The creator forums tell the same story. Social media managers and big YouTubers who use one account from many devices or locations get bumped constantly. They blame site security, not their internet provider. The fixes that worked for them: keep each account on one steady device and browser profile, stay signed in instead of signing in again, don't let your browser clear cookies when it closes, and never tap "this wasn't me" on your own logins, because that signs you out everywhere. Joe: So it sounds like we could reasonably conclude it's a Google issue. Bob: Partly, yes. Google and Chrome are the most likely cause of the Google sign-outs, especially with several Google accounts in one profile. But other social platforms log you out on their own too, from their security reacting to the same account being used in several places at once. So it's mostly a Google issue

problem, plus each site's own security. The fix is the same either way: give each account one home and stop the fresh logins. Joe: Yes, when I said Chrome, I meant Google. Bob: Got it. Since Google makes Chrome, it's fair to call that piece a Google issue. The other platforms logging you out is still separate, though. That's their own security, and the same fix for your setup handles it. Joe: But remember, I'm trying to solve this for the world that's fighting it, not just for myself. If it were just me, I don't know what I'd do, but I can't stand the thought of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of creators going through this every day. Bob: That's a good cause, and the evidence helps. It's real and documented: the 9to5Google poll, months of Reddit threads, and creators and social media managers all describe the same thing, and Google still hasn't publicly owned it. That makes a strong show segment and a strong public ask to Google. It also fits the Google one-account campaign we already started. I can bring a short plan in two parts: fixing your own setup, and a public push. The push would be a show piece, a post asking creators to share their stories, and a message to the right Google leaders.

The nice thing about having a glitch on X is that you know they'll fix it in a couple of days. They might fix it wrong, but if they do, they're right back at it, working hard to fix it again in a couple more days. Contrast that with the Google monopoly, where you wait for next month's update, and if you're lucky, they fixed it. If not, you wait another month. That's what happens when you don't have any competition.