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? 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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