How to Keep Meetup Accounts Apart on One PC with Separate Browser Profiles

How do separate browser profiles keep Meetup accounts apart? #

Give each Meetup account its own browser profile. Meetup's Cookie Policy (last updated 3 October 2022, read 3 October 2026) says it uses cookies so that you can log in to secure areas of the platform, and Chromium's documentation says a profile's folder holds data such as history, bookmarks and cookies. A profile is where those login cookies live, so one profile per account means one Meetup sign-in per profile.

A word on the term: Meetup's own pages also say profile for the account page you see after logging in. Here, a browser profile always means the browser feature.

What a profile separates, and what it does not #

Set up one profile per Meetup account, step by step #

1. Open Chrome on your computer, select Profile at the top right, then Add Chrome profile.
2. Choose a name, photo and colour that identify the account. Signing in to Chrome with a Google Account is optional; Chrome Help says it lets you save bookmarks, passwords and settings in your account.
3. In that profile, open meetup.com and log in with that account only.
4. In Meetup, open Settings > Account Management and read the email, so you know the profile holds the account you think it does.
5. Repeat for each account. To switch, select Profile and choose the one you want. To rename, select Profile, then Manage Chrome profiles, and use More > Edit at the top right of that profile.
6. Chrome Help says you can set Chrome to display all profiles when you open a new browser session: under Manage Chrome profiles, tick Show on startup.

Microsoft Edge and Firefox have profile features of their own, so use each browser's help page for current steps. Firefox users can also use containers; Mozilla's own example is a person running work and personal Gmail accounts side by side.

Meetup-specific habits on a shared computer #

• Check the email before you act. Settings > Account Management shows the account's email, and Meetup's own pages use that check when groups seem to vanish.
• Use the sign-in method you registered with. If you signed up through Facebook, Google or Apple, use that button on the login page. When a button offers to create a new account, Meetup says that method is probably not linked to your existing profile.
• Look at extensions per profile. Meetup says extensions, especially ad-blockers, can interfere with login and can also run in incognito windows. If login fails in one profile, check that profile's extensions first.
• Keep cookies in place. The Cookie Policy says removing or rejecting cookies can affect the platform, and the Help Center's page on repeated logouts points to cookie and cache settings. A profile that clears cookies will ask you to log in again.
• Sign out on shared machines. Meetup's security page advises signing out of public computers when you are done.
• Stay on supported browsers. The Help Center lists the latest Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.

Naming, hand-over and backups #

Naming. Put the part you would search for first.

A profile called MTP Lan Riverside Organizer is hard to open by mistake. Give each profile a different colour too.

Hand-over. Never pass a signed-in profile to someone as a way of sharing an account; the Terms put you in charge of what follows if you share credentials. Give the person their own account and a role, as described in managing a Meetup group with a team. When someone leaves, delete the profile you made for them: select Profile, then Manage Chrome profiles, use More > Delete on that profile and confirm.

Backups. A browser profile is not where Meetup keeps your groups; they belong to the account. Meetup's own copy comes from Settings > Account Management > Submit GDPR Request, where you choose to be sent a copy of your data. A copy of a browser profile folder is a different thing: Chromium's documentation puts the Windows default under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data, and the folder can hold cookies. Chrome Help says removing a profile erases its bookmarks, history, passwords and other settings from the computer.

When you outgrow ordinary profiles #

A handful of profiles is easy to manage by hand. You are outgrowing them when the windows look alike, several people open and close profiles every day, a clean hand-over matters, or you look after accounts for several communities. A profile manager then saves time; see installing ADSSPEED on Windows for a first run, and what a browser profile is for the background.

What if it fails? #

Where ADSSPEED fits #

When ordinary profiles get hard to tell apart, ADSSPEED, a Windows and macOS desktop app, manages many browser profiles in one place. Every profile keeps its own cookies, local data and browser settings, so the Meetup accounts you manage stay signed in side by side without signing each other out. Profiles can be opened, stopped and organised in bulk, a proxy can be set per profile and assigned to many profiles at once, and profile data stays on your own computer. Use only accounts you own or are authorised to manage, and follow Meetup's rules. ADSSPEED is not affiliated with Meetup.