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Yesterday I went to look at the BBC website on my phone. It wanted me to log in which I usually am - but suggested my fathers email address to use to log in! He has never had my phone.
The only plausible thing I can see is that when I helped them set up Iplayer and so on on their telly maybe I logged in with my email and then later he has tried to log in with his?
How on earth tho could my phone have his email address on it?
any clues?
The only plausible thing I can see is that when I helped them set up Iplayer and so on on their telly maybe I logged in with my email and then later he has tried to log in with his?
That probably, delete cookies and pay it no mind. The email address will have got caught up somewhere and you could drive yourself mental trying to figure it out. If you don't want things like that to happen, probably best to just give up on the internet altogether, you can only do so much
What phone and what browser?
If you are using Chrome, it will have synced with your Google account. If you have ever used that email address on your PC or tablet etc, it could have saved from there.
Can check here, and delete any you don't want. https://passwords.google.com/
android phone and chrome
However I do not have a google account active. I am never logged in as far as I am aware ( as much as possible) I do not use google as a search engine.
I have never used my fathers email address on my phone. It was not google anyway it was the BBC site that wanted me to log in using my dads email address.
Google will auto-fill things like email addresses and passwords. You can log your browser into your Google account which will sync your passwords and bookmarks etc across all your devices. It is possible that at some point in the past you logged into your Dad's browser as you. But then he'd see your bookmarks and he yours.
If you use an Android phone you put your Google account into the phone when you start it up (I am not sure if you can do without one these days?), and this propagates to Chrome on the phone. So if you tried Netflix on your phone with his account you'd see it in your Chrome too.
The email address will have got caught up somewhere and you could drive yourself mental trying to figure it out. If you don’t want things like that to happen, probably best to just give up on the internet altogether, you can only do so much
They don't do things like that automatically with your data, there'd be no point. All they want to know is what you might like to buy so they can tell other businesses.
How on earth tho could my phone have his email address on it?
Your phone doesn't have the email address on it - if it's not Google it's BBC somehow linking your phone with his email. Which could maybe have happened if you used iPlayer at his house on his wifi.
Which could maybe have happened if you used iPlayer at his house on his wifi.
Thats probably the answer - from when I set up his stuff. Probably logged in as me, he than changed it to log in as him and then the BBC thinks we are the same account
I do have a google account - you have to as you say to set the phone up. But I have never logged in to it since and I am sure I am logged out on the phone ( cos it keeps prompting me to log in 🙂
I think - but I am not good with this stuff!
If you download apps on your phone, you'll have to be logged into your Google account
Its a while since I downloaded an app and maybe I fogot to log out of google again - I'll check
Its just weird