My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by neodon on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:02AM (#34935115)

Am I the only one who uses browser profiles to separate my personal browsing from work or other organizations I'm a part of? When I mention this approach to people they give me a strange look like I'm crazy.

In Chrome you just create a new profile for each identity you have. If you're opening random incognito windows or using different browsers all the time to log in with different identities, you should be creating profiles instead. Everything is separate including bookmarks, sessions, cookies, extensions, etc.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by petepete on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:14AM (#34935466)

For Firefox users, Multi Account Containers are definitely the way to go.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by smallstepforman on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:16AM (#34935475)

I take the next step, Vivaldi for personal and Chrome for work profiles. Firefox for non important profiles.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:22AM (#34935506)

I use separate browsers for work and personal. On a work machine, my personal stuff will be in Firefox and my work stuff in Chrome/Safari/whatever.

It's just easier for me to manage that way. That being said, my work google account is connected to my personal phone which is probably gonna mess me up at some point.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by Kwpolska on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:33AM (#34935544)

I go even further, corporate laptop for work, personal laptop for personal stuff.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by Dalewyn on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:48AM (#34935613)

A dedicated laptop solely for work is basic CYA and good practice, everyone should do it.

Yes, even if work doesn't provide a laptop for work purposes and you need to furnish your own. Same goes for phones, etc.

It might be expensive to maintain dedicated hardware to cordon off work from everything else, but it's still cheaper than if you hadn't and the inevitable biological waste impacts the aerodynamic wake generator.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by alfnor on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:13AM (#34936419)

I used to run Qubes on my laptop with one dedicated VM for school. However, I had to change to Windows for a mutlitude of reasons. Might work for some though, and certainly cheaper than dedicated devices.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by quickthrower2 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:33AM (#34935826)

Essential if you are an employee. Same machine may be ok as a freelancer.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by bentobean on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:21AM (#34936463)

I go even further. Two completely separate households - one for work, one for personal.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by drdec on Saturday February 25, 2023 @09:26AM (#34936900)

Insert obligatory Severance joke here

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by ebcase on Saturday February 25, 2023 @09:18AM (#34936840)

This is the way.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by drstewart on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:41AM (#34937974)

Not far enough. I have a dedicated internet provider subscribed to a place I rent specifically for work whose address I only use for work purposes, 3 states over. THAT is the way.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by deeth_starr_v on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:02PM (#34950632)

We don't know exactly why the account got taken over, but I doubt using the browser login would have prevented this (school azure taking over whatever microsoft account was logged in).

Also, Google tracks you across all websites once you login to the browser (even if you don't use google login on them). If they weren't tracking you, using the browser profiles would be great.

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