[GTALUG] every time I log in to google or ebay from Fedora they think that it is the first time

[Lennart Sorensen]

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.

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Len Sorensen