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How often are you not signed in to GitHub? You’re presenting this as a practical pain, but I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t signed in to GitHub.

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I don't have a work GitHub account and I keep personal stuff out of my work computer. The number of times I've wanted to search an open source codebase without cloning it yet is significantly nonzero.

I've also wanted to do code search on my phone, where I have no need to be logged in so I'm not.

So register a throwaway for work and your phone. Seems easily solvable in a few seconds!

Seems like a good time to mention that (despite anecdotal lack of enforcement) GitHub's terms of service continue to officially forbid having more than one free account for manual use. https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

Can they let their business customers know that? Companies making their employees create new accounts for their org is not uncommon. I’m not talking about Enterprise instances.

My account through work uses SSO. I didn’t make my account, it authenticates through AD. If I leave the company, I lose access to the account.

Telling employees to make their own personal account to do company work seems like a bad idea.

That rule sucks. I want to keep work and personal separated.

Work account should be pro and paid by the company then.

If I'm considering reporting a bug I came across in a free-software project while at work, that's already something I probably couldn't justify with a strict cost-benefit calculation for my employer.

In practice my employer would be happy for me to spend my time doing it anyway, because it's the right thing to do. But asking them to pay Github for the privilege is pushing it.

I don't want to login to github.com when I'm on my work computer. That's going to take me one step closer to uploading company internal stuff by accident.

It's especially bad because I don't really remember my passwords, so I always have to reset password when logging in again, and that refreshes the dev keys so my terminal git push also stops works - a complete PITA.

This is nuts, dude! Get a password manager or something.

Which could happen to every other website has nothing to do with GitHub.

I have my cookies autodeleted on a regular basis because I prefer my browsing sessions and activity to not be linked for surveillance purposes.

The use of a password manager makes re-logging-in effortless.

I have a specific firefox container group for github and a few other applications so that it's not leaking cookies. No need to relogin.

GitHub still knows all of your individual visits to GitHub, and which repos you viewed. Most of the time I don’t want to be browsing GitHub itself whilst logged in. I don’t like or trust Microsoft with my location or waking hours or browsing history.

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