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Stop repeatedly auto-associating accounts on login!

I want my Meta profile kept unassociated with the others. Maybe that's swimming against the current, but that's what I want. Feature: Don't automatically associate my account when I login. Auto-...
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Moving a discussion to chat reloads all chatrooms and changes profile picture

Short version Today I had some extensive discussions in comments and was offered to take the discussion to a chatroom¹. When I clicked the link, the following happened (in addition the expected ...
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Creating accounts - What is this value?

I don't know whether I can express everything here because, this looks like a strange bug. But, I can respond to comments for sure... I was involved in creating accounts. When I created my account in ...
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Associated users endpoint gives empty response for meta users

The /users/{ids}/associated endpoint of the Stack Exchange API has the option to set ?types=meta_site to get the child meta users of a network account. But when I try it now, I get an empty response ...
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How does automatic account association work?

I'm interested in some technical information on how you achieved the automatic account association as discussed on the blog. What is "the way to make it happen"? Do you have an (internal) ...
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Associated account is empty and I have 2 meta accounts!

See the screenshot below. You can see 2 meta accounts and no SO or any other associated account of mine. And this is snapshot of my StackoverFlow Account Question: My account has undergone lot of ...
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Area 51 account disappeared

I tried to login to Area 51 after a long hiatus and got: Unable to log in: No user found I also notice it's now missing from my list of Stack Exchange accounts. Instead, my Area 51 account is linked ...
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How do I stop people seeing my associated account on other Stack Exchange sites?

I have tried to un-associate all my account. However the next time I log into any site I get. “n” accounts automatically been associated I wish to use a single OpenID for ease, however I don’t ...
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Wrong number of questions shown on network profile

I noticed what I think is a bug on my network profile accounts list. I currently have 9 questions on Super User (and that's correctly shown on my Super User profile) but if I look at my network ...
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Reputation differs depending on which site I look at it from

Well I have just noticed something odd. I've waited for a couple of days, but it hasn't changed. On my Stack Overflow account I have (at the time of posting) 556 rep. If I go to my account on Game ...
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Why does trying to log in to a new Stack Exchange (Area 51) with SE credentials still have bad UX?

I have seen Stack Exchange cross-site signup: login with Stack Exchange doesn't work and noted that it is marked as "completed", but that doesn’t square with the experience I just had. ...
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When I try to "link Stack Exchange account" in Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, I get an error

When I try to "link stack exchange account" in Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, I get an error in Chrome on Mac OSX 10.7.5. The error reads "website has a redirect loop" and the website doesn't show up. ...
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Don't show me notifications or comments from sites I'm logged out of

I'm taking a break from my most-used SE site for a while, so I've logged myself out, but there are other sites in the network where I'm still interested in reading and possibly contributing. I'm (...
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Sorting user's Stack Exchange accounts

On the users/{user_id}/{username}?tab=accounts page of a Stack Exchange site, all the linked accounts are displayed. It appears that they are sorted by the user's reputation on the particular account....
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Accounts not linked across some communities

I am a member of many communities, including Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault, DevOps, and others. My settings show 20 communities. But it seems not all my communities are linked. I can see ...
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Better management of associated accounts

Correct me if I'm wrong but I cannot be able to clear association of a particular without clearing all associations. If there is a way to do it, it doesn't seem to be very clear. For instance, an ...
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Why doesn't this user have the association bonus?

I've been browsing the stack exchange accounts and I don't how I reached this account. I'm very surprised why he has only 12 rep on this site:https://judaism.stackexchange.com/users/1757/battle-of-...
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Error after verifying a new account + pressing back

I just registered a new account on Japanese SE by signing in with my SO account. When you link an account, there's a "confirm your new account" message that pops up, and you have to click the orange ...
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Bug in merging different profiles

Yesterday I created a profile in Stack Overflow and asked a question. Today I asked a question on Unix as unregistered user. Then I logged in with my SO login and password but I don't see my last post ...
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login failed using google ID

I have always been logging in stackoverflow using my google id. My google id was actually my hotmail id. it has something to do with google all acounts with one ID thing, not really sure how it works. ...
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Reputation changes not being shown after account Connection

I was just searching for my profiles on stackoverflow on Google, and I have one which I use a lot, but then I found another which was Reputation 1, which was an account created logging in with ...
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Can't link my Stack Overflow account in my Careers profile

I cannot add the Stack Exchange network sites I'd like to display on my profile Why? If it's possible I would like to have only one account, please be careful, please don't erase my profile.
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Problem with multiple OpenID's?

So I have my account on several sites, but sometimes when I go to other sites it recognizes other accounts? Can you just sync them all to this account? I'm not sure why its happening.
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Apply ignored/interesting tags to the StackExchange questions list

(as option) using the tags of the respective site's accounts.
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Logging in created a new account instead of associating existing account

Today I wanted to ask a question on Super User. It showed me that I'm not logged in so I clicked "log in". I first tried my e-mail and password, but it didn't work. Next I tried to log in using ...
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associate account un linked

In other account tab all of my account just disappeared
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Make sites that I am a member of more prominent in the footer

Now that this footer cleanup request has been implemented and the links to other sites are in columns, I find myself struggling to find links to sites that I am already a member of. For example, I ...
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open id created a new account for me (request to re-open close post)

I'm on a different computer and the Open ID login created on new account on the SO site. Using the Open ID login on the SO site created a new account for me. It appears to be new. But it also ...
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Changing email on an account to be merged changed SO subscription accounts

I changed my email on my Academia account that was connected to my StackExchange profile (to my OzEmail account) so I could save the change needed to allow it to be merged with a manual account with ...
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