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 session to another, so they're making my life as miserable as possible so I'll succumb to giving them the surveillance tracking data they want. It's one of the reasons I haven't enabled 2FA on those websites. I'm not reliant on any of their services, & I don't store data on there so I'm not too worried about a breach. My 1FA passwords are strong and unique for each site. I consider my risk profile low. Facebook recently locked me out of my account because it didn't recognize the browser I was using. It wants me to send a message to five "friends" to vouch for me so I can log in again. Not happening, so I'm no longer on Facebook. And I'm prepared to abandon the other services (Google, Twitter) as soon as they become more annoying than useful. --Bob. On 2022-06-21 16:01, 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...".
For google it is more annoying. It wants a second factor authenticator. This amount to a message on all my android devices, none of which are close by. I have to climb a flight of stairs!
Any idea why these sites think my desktop is new to them each time?
(I don't get this when I log in from an Android device.) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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