On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 at 18:07, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 08:08:59PM -0400, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 20:04, Lennart Sorensen via talk
> > wrote:
> > > After all without a cookie, there is no way to remember anything in the
> > > browser.
> >
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 08:08:59PM -0400, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 20:04, Lennart Sorensen via talk
> wrote:
> > After all without a cookie, there is no way to remember anything in the
> > browser.
>
> Sure there is.
>
>
Those alerts and prompts for repeated logins are almost certainly caused
by clearing cookies.
I purposely configure most of my browsers to clear cookies and cache
every time I close them (different browsers for varying levels of
lockdown). But the Goobooktwits want to track me from one
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 20:04, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> After all without a cookie, there is no way to remember anything in the
> browser.
Sure there is.
https://betterprogramming.pub/the-different-types-of-browser-storage-82b918cb3cf8
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 04:01:40PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> When I log into google or ebay from my desktop, they think that I'm
> logging in for the first time from that device.
>
> For ebay.ca, it is painless: I get a warning message in email "if this
> wasn't you...".
>
>
My off hand guess would be cookies.
Its really the only way they have to track you.
You IP address can change of be used by several browsers so they can't
use that for certain identification.
Do you have some cookie management software on your system that could be
screwing with your browser?
When I log into google or ebay from my desktop, they think that I'm
logging in for the first time from that device.
For ebay.ca, it is painless: I get a warning message in email "if this
wasn't you...".
For google it is more annoying. It wants a second factor authenticator.
This amount to a
