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...".
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.)
Did you enable a setting in your browser that makes it forget all cookies when you close it? After all without a cookie, there is no way to remember anything in the browser. Certainly chrome has an option for 'Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows' which would do it. -- Len Sorensen