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For your example, this seems bizarre. Every "sign up" process I can think of ends with you being signed into to your new account. Every "log in" process includes a button or link that says "are you a new user, sign up here". You chose a very streamlined thing to worry about.

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I'm not sure. A lot end up sending an email that you need to click on to verify.

That's a step of the signup process. AS this article points out, that link ends up with you back in your browser and logged in. In fact, that's probably the most important reason to bring you back to the browser - so you end in the logged in state and can memorize the password in your browser.

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