So now you have to have a google email address to login

[avalon37]

Typical Google forcing everything on you. I just tried logging into one of my AdSense accounts and the login email address has been a @companyname.com for 10+ years not a gmail account. Now I can't login into my account unless I create a gmail account and associate it with my AdSense account. Always an suspicious motive for why Google does these kinds of things. I also noticed today that you can be logged into your gmail and then click on the Adwords login. Now you have to verify the password (which for me is the same) whereas you didn't have to do this just yesterday. However they did not make this login verification step for Analytics. Always making their systems so their either harder to log out of or force you to use all things Google.

[not2easy]

They have been doing the login-again thing even though I am logged in when going from GWT to AdSense for at least a week on my account and it is aggravatingly dumb. They have long been requiring things you don't want to continue getting things you already use. Its just the way they roll.

[netmeg]

It's not just Google; Bing is forcing me to create Bing accounts to manage my clients Bing PPC advertising (on accounts we've had for years and years on their own email addresses)

Everybody wants to get their hooks in you.

[RedBar]

Now I can't login into my account unless I create a gmail account

Mine is still working with @companyname.com, when did this happen?

What's annoying me is that damned splash page I get when logging-in, what the hell is the use of that when I already have an account?

[Lame_Wolf]

What's annoying me is that damned splash page I get when logging-in, what the hell is the use of that when I already have an account?

I feel your pain, as I have two acccounts, and believe me, you get pissed off rather quickly.

However, there is a work-around.

I have my homepage as...
[accounts.google.com...]

When I now log out, I click on the homepage button, and it avoids that annoying, pointless, extra page.

[edited by: martinibuster at 12:41 am (utc) on Sep 7, 2014]
[edit reason] Fixed URL [/edit]

[piatkow]

No problem for me - yet.

[Lame_Wolf]

The other way to not see it, is to use the mobile/Low bandwidth version.