How to get a Google Group URL not linked to current user

[Dunge]

I want to publish a URL for any external users to join a Google group.

My group settings has the "who can see" and "who can join" to "any internet user".

The problem is that accessing a group via an URL change the current active user.

Let's use an example:

My browser has two different Google users set up and I can toggle between the two via the icon in the top right corner.

Let's take a public group URL: https://groups.google.com/g/test

My goal would be to subscribe to this group using my second user. If you visit this link, it will revert to the first user in your browser. If you change the current user via the top right icon, you get sent back to the default Google Group page (outside the test group), with a /u/1 appended to the url:

https://groups.google.com/u/1/

If you click the previous link to return to the "test" group, it switches back to the first user.

I found by trial and error that to reach the "test" group page with your second user, the url to visit would be: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/test

But that's absolutely not user-friendly. I want to be able to publish a URL to the public, and have them possible to join the group no matter which one of their user they want. It's not really possible to start to explain how to manually edit the URL to add parts of it in a publication.

[StephenHind]

@Dunge this is an issue in multiple places for Google Workspace, not just Google Groups, and the rooty cause of the issue is being signed in to multiple Google accounts in the same browser profile.  Google's help center has what to do on day one and guides you to make a dedicated profile for your Google Workspace account so it's not an issue in that Chrome profile  Google Workspace even gives you the ability for you to make sure all your Google Workspace users are forced to have a dedicated profile for their Google Workspace account, but you have absolutely no control over what an external user does with their browser.

Because I'm signed in to only one account in my Chrome profile the test link you gave me works instantly and I do not get redirected:

It does work, just not under all circumstances.

[icrew · Accepted solution]

What we do is append https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?continue=https%3A// to the start of URLs like the one you’re describing. That way, the user gets sent to the page where they can choose which of their Google accounts they want to use.  

So for example, your example URL would then be:

https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?continue=https%3A//groups.google.com/g/test

Hope that helps,

Ian

[Dunge]

That's excellent @icrew exactly what I needed thank you.