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Strange redirection loop when logging out of Google services

I was on YouTube the other day and it instructed me to logout just before creating a new YouTube account based on my Google account. After clicking the link, it cycles through a bunch of Google ccTLD domains like com.br, .cn, .es, .fr etc, then finally lands at a URL similar to below then stops.

I wonder if other people are experiencing similar issues? Its' no show stopper, but does seem quite weird. I've even seen examples where clicking "logout" doesn't actually log you out, which is a pretty serious security flaw.

https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout2?ile=1&ils=adwords.CN,adwords.ES,adwords.FR,adwords.IT,adwords.JP,adwords.MX,adwords.PT,adwords.TR,adwords.UA,s.NZ&ilc=5&continue=http://www.youtube.com/create_account&zx=-[id number removed for blog]

Strange Google Logout Error

Strange Google Logout Error

The chain of redirects in Chrome shows the page titles of these logout screens cycling through various languages supported by Google:

09:23
Google Accounts
09:23
Contas do Google
09:23
Google-accounts
09:23
Google Accounts
09:23
Cuentas de Google
09:23
Google Accounts
09:23
Redirecting
09:22
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
09:22
Redirecting
09:22
YouTube
Posted by tomachi on April 25th, 2010 filed in Technology