I’ve posted a Connect link on LINE and sent it to a friend and my brother. The friend is a regular user who does not participate in the localguides. However, I have never received a reply saying “I can’t open this link”. The same is true for my brother.
The only exceptions would be closed boards, only people with permissions to view and post in those boards can see them.
What I suggest you do is to get a permanent link to the post using the “Get Permalink” feature form the three dots … menu and use that when linking to posts.
I am able to open the link correctly from the FB page you shared, except that the URL is expanded but that should not be a problem with viewing the page properly.
I also found that it was open to the general public.
By the way, there seem to be some barriers to those who have been banned their local guide account and those who have opted out of their local guide in the past month.
Is there any information on that point?
Connect is a public forum, apart some exclusive board accessibile only with a specific badge. So everything posted in the public area is publicly visible.
However you are correct about suspended account: they cannot access if they are logged in that account. The reason will be extremely clear for them, because they will see a big red, and self explanatory, message.
They will be able to see Connect in anonymous mode, as mentioned by @PaulPavlinovich
As you mentioned Facebook, I want to ask how did you shared the link. If you use the “sharing” command, a line of instructions is added on the HTML address. The function is normally to track down the origin of the link. In this case a user who try to open the link will be asked to login on the Google Account.
If you copy the HTML address of the post in connect and you paste it on Facebook, they should have no issues with reading the post
The screenshot shared by you is not related to a suspended account, @potaro67 , this is when you access from Facebook from a link shared through the sharing function in Connect.
A suspended account will receive, as I said, an extremely clear message
Hi @potaro67 that message you saw is Google not allowing the login to the Google account while inside Facebook’s internal browser. More and more sites are doing this to prevent Facebook getting access to even more private information through the logged in account. This protective measure is nothing to do with Connect, it is a side effect of not being able to login.
From a personal security perspective, you should never login to any account through an internal browser such as the one embedded into Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Once you login that internal browser now has access to everything you have access to.
