The cookie name is rolc819
If not signed on at all in the browser - it may not be present
If signed on and in Public view = Member
If signed on and in Admin view = Admin

So in theory, if your browser is closed and you start your browser and go to your site and sign on - you will be in the Public view. Same can be achieved by deleting that specific or ALL cookies. How you do this varies by browser.

So one possible solution is to open your Admin session in 1 browser (not your default browser) and then your Public sessions in your default browser. That way any links to your site that you click in an email will open in the default browser and after signon you will be in the Public view.

Now personally I do not like running multiple browsers (unless I specifically want to test how something looks/behaves in that specific browser. I also tend to keep my browser with many tabs running for about a week at a time - restart browser or PC every Saturday morning unless MS forces me to do that during the week for updates (don't you just love Win 10).

Now my preferred browser is Firefox and I am running the Quantum 61.0.1 (64 bit) version - and one of the features it has is Containers. Well actually it is an extension - Firefox Multi-Account Containers.

This allows you define as many containers as you wish and then if you open any web page in a selected container - all sorts of things - like cookies are isolated in that container and not visible to any pages in any other containers.

So does not seem like there is any way to click a link and get it to open in a specific container, so what I do is use the container tool to open a tab in a new container (I call it WA Admin) and then in that tab open my WA Admin session. I also open my Public session in a default container.

Like this, any signon activity in my default container or any link that I may click will also open as Public.

Been doing this for about 3 weeks now and is working just great

Robin or Apricots - What is the name of the cookie? It should be possible to create a web page that deletes the cookie and redirects to the site.

Can you provide a custom URL that will always start us admins in Public view, even if we were previously logged in in Admin view?

Usually when I go to our website, I want to start in Public view. But if my last visit ended in Admin view, I get to watch the spinning wheel for 20 seconds or so before it lets me do anything.

Why make your admins start off frustrated?

This was available prior to Release 6.1, which broke it. Please put it back.

The issue is even worse than that. When you last signed off (or are still logged on) in the Admin view and now you want to test a link to that you are providing in an email to your members by sending a test email to yourself before to all the membership - that link will always take you to the Admin view instead of what the user will get.

What we really need is that no matter who you are - Admin or not - that irrespective of where you are currently signed on or were last signed on is that clicking on any link to your site (other than a link that will take you specifically to an Admin function) will take you to the public view.

Just BTW - from some testing done - this is just driven by a cookie - ie when you go to a link (or sign on) if whatever the cookie is - is present in your browser - you get redirected to the Admin view.